Tech Policy Summit: Patent Office head lays out reform strategy
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| Ultimately, "the measure of innovation and competitiveness is not
| the number of patents but the quality of patents," Dudas concluded.
| But, the measure of success for the USPTO will be the quantity and
| quantity of patents that it can process. Improvements are in place,
| but a backlog of 700,000 will take years to dissipate.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4562
Related:
British Government Comes Out Against 'Pure' Software Patents
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| The answer is reassuring but perhaps doesn't go far enough, and gives
| no specific promises to bring into line a patent office that grants
| software patents (according to the petition) 'against the letter
| and the spirit of the law'.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/27/152246&from=rss
Microsoft Responds to Alleged Ballmer 'Threats' Against Linux
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| The company's response to BetaNews suggests that, if Ballmer was
| taken out of context, then at least Microsoft was in no mood to
| correct that context. At worst, it suggests the company may be
| comfortable with letting the "veiled threat" theory stand.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Responds_to_Alleged_Ballmer_Threats_Against_Linux/1172178360
http://tinyurl.com/354z55
Survey says: Microsoft to lose more than gain from Linux IP assaults
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| Based on a survey in my recent blog on Microsoft's MP3 IP
| travails, the community thinks Microsoft has more to lose than
| to gain. I think they are right. Microsoft may win a battle or
| two but at the cost of a war. Microsoft must know what violations
| may exist. By not taking action, it wants the best of both: no
| legal action, all PR benefit. Not a good bet. It didn't work out
| for SCO from the Unix angle.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2420
Patents cut both ways for Microsoft
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| If I held Microsoft stock (which I don?t) I would be furious.
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| Here is Steve Balmer focusing on Linux, making the tired claim
| that there is so-called Intellectual Property in Linux that
| violates patents held by Microsoft. Meanwhile Microsoft gets
| hit with a hefty patent violation of its own; 1.5 billion
| (yes, that is a "B") for the use of the mp3 patent without
| payment of royalties.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/02/post_4.html
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