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[FYI] Owning the Future
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- Subject: [FYI] Owning the Future
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 18:06:06 +0200
http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jul01/shulman.asp
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Owning the Future: Patent Pollution By Seth Shulman
July/August 2001
It is not a perfect world. Tankers spill oil. Innocent people land in
jail. Bad calls cost the home team a championship. And as almost
anyone in the intellectual-property game will tell you, the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office continues to grant patents that are,
well, patently invalid. I'm talking about patents for things that
have either already been invented or are so straightforward and
apparent they don't meet the patent's law requirements for being
novel and nonobvious.
[...]
What makes these startups really interesting is that they are
attracting support across a broad spectrum of intellectual-property
players—from patent system boosters to open-source programmers. In
the polarized IP field, that is no small feat.
[...]
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