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Hatch-Leahy Patent Reform Proposal
Just before summer recess, some prominents senators have revived patent reform legislation (more or less) that had been proposed in the House last year. It’s interesting to witness the politics between...
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Jim Moore on Apple, patents, and Creative
Jim has another must-read post in his series of thought-provoking mini-essays on the patent system, innovation, and the web 2.0 space.
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Microsoft's Open Specification Promise
Microsoft has just unveiled a new commitment not to assert certain rights against people who develop code based on specifications that Microsoft has developed. It’s called the Open Specification...
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Microsoft and Novell make a deal
In big interoperability news, Microsoft and Novell have entered into a deal to work together. Those are some interesting bedfellows. Much to unpack and understand. One insight, from ArsTechnica’s...
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More patenting in the RSS space
As a follow-up to earlier posts on this topic: Microsoft has filed a large-scale patent application related to RSS. (A news story here and Dave Winer’s post on it here.) Microsoft’s patent application,...
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Jim Moore's chapters 14 and 15, on a CC for Patents
Jim Moore says “we need a true Creative Commons for patents.” Two substantial posts on patent reform, Microsoft, IBM, and power relationships.
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Launch of LegalForce, Creation of Markets for IP
I got word today of the launch of a new service called LegalForce. They’re creating an online marketplace for patents. They’ve also got something of a community-building idea for stakeholders in the...
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Francois Leveque on Standards, Patents, and Antitrust
As part of our Berkman@10 celebration this year, we at the Berkman Center tonight welcome Francois Leveque, professor at the Ecole des Mines, Paris, and visiting prof at the faculty of law at UC...
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Entrepreneurship, the Patent Law, and Scale of Firms
I’m at a wonderful summer program hosted by the Kauffman Foundation on Law, Innovation, and Growth. They’ve convened a truly interdisciplinary crowd interested in how law can affect rates of innovation...
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In re Bilski
The CAFC today decided a much-anticipated patent law case, In re Bilski. The opinion: PDF and html. At issue was the patentability of a method for hedging risk in the trading of commodities. – If...
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