The Financial Times reports that “[d]efending intellectual property in the EU may get cheaper, quicker and more efficient under plans to streamline the patent regime outlined by the European Commission on Tuesday. According to the Los Angeles Times, the “Chinese police seized nearly 2 million fake CDs and DVDs when [...]
GPLv3: The Legal Risks of Overreaching for Third Party Patent Rights The FSF has now released the Discussion Draft 3 of GPLv3, adding paragraphs four and five to Section 11 for the stated purpose of blocking the recent patent cooperation agreement between Novell and Microsoft and other agreements like it, [...]
Yahoo!News has an op-ed by Pat Cox in which he points out that “Europe’s Microsoft case goes too far”, with the European Commission in effect declaring “war on accepted international and European conventions regarding intellectual property rights, applying instead its own test (determined by the Directorate General for Competition) of [...]
STATEMENT BY JONATHAN ZUCK, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGY Today, the European Commission revealed its vision for improving the patent system in Europe, including a proposal for a unified EU patent judiciary. Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive Technology, said: “Today’s Communication is a long awaited [...]
The New York Times reports that while the growth rate for legal music downloading services is far higher than that for illegal ones, “the average peer-to-peer household still downloads far more songs. Peer-to-peer networks yielded five billion downloads in 2006, whereas 509 million songs were downloaded from iTunes-style services.” The [...]