VentureBeat reports that “LegalForce, an online marketplace where patents can be bought, sold or licensed, has launched.” Inc.com writes that “[s]tart-ups […] based in cities and towns with low high-school dropout rates and a high percentage of residents with college educations have greater survival rates than those located in areas [...]

With regard to the European Commission’s latest actions against Microsoft, the Wall Street Journal observes that “[t]he heart of the matter is revealed in Ms. Kroes's observation that other software makers provide comparable interoperability technologies at no cost. EU antitrust officials make no secret of their preference for the open-source [...]

In an article on the European Commission’s latest actions against Microsoft, internetnews.com reports that “[a]t least one prominent European jurist said Microsoft may be the victim of anti-American bias.” According to CNetNews.com, “[t]he Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of [...]

There is an interesting post on IP on Matusow’s blog today.  The post mentions a study by U.C. Berkeley Professor of Law and Technology Robert Merges which "found that even after 10-plus years of software patenting 1) the software industry remains far less concentrated than the average American industry; 2) [...]

ZDNet has an interesting article on Jon Dudas’ view of the patent system.  Speaking at the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose, Dudas, who is the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), said that the “system is not broken, just [...]