[News] Patent Trolls and Abusers Vote on Patent Reform (Fo..

Lawmakers take aim at patent speculators

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| Passage of patent reform would certainly placate many technology companies,
| while angering critics who fear a trampling of the property rights of
| relatively powerless inventors.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/lawmakers-take-aim-boom-frivolou...tory.as
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Google leaps on patent reform bandwagon

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| Today, some of the biggest names in high-tech have their eyes on the nation's
| capital, where lawmakers are babbling about an overhaul of the U.S. patent
| system.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/06/google_leaps_on_patent_reform_bandwagon/


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Big businesses boast of patent benefits, for small businesses

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| A report published by an EU task force on intellectual property claims
| that small businesses benefit from a patent system, despite lacking
| almost any participation by the small business community.
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| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
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| [...]
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| The report does note objections from the likes of patentfrei.de and
| Sun Microsystems, which were recorded at some length in the report.
| But this does not appear to have impacted the conclusion of the
| report in any way
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| [...]
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| Jean-Pierre Laisne, of ObjectWeb, an open source software community,
| said that he found the report useless: participants were told that
| all their contributions would be recorded but at the end only
| those of Business Software Alliance and Microsoft were used.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/99155/big-businesses-boast-of-patent-benef...-for-sm


Commerce Secretary names Schramm to innovation panel

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| He will be part of a lineup that includes the Microsoft Corp. CEO
| Steve Ballmer, 3M CEO George Buckley, UPS Chairman and CEO Michael Eskew,
| IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano and Wal-Mart Stores Vice Chairman John
| Menzer.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/061206/1386414.html?.v=2