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  • @oanth_rss
    oAnth_RSS @oanth_rss via RSS CC BY 8/05/2021

    "Vor allem Hilfsorganisationen haben früh in der Corona-Pandemie ge...
    ▻https://diasp.eu/p/12864889

    „Vor allem Hilfsorganisationen haben früh in der Corona-Pandemie gefordert, den #Patentschutz auf mögliche Medikamente aufzuheben.“ Aber die GroKo ist dagegen: Wie zuvor bei der Energiewende hält man mit dem deutschen Exportmodell an etwas fest, das so nicht mehr lange funktionieren wird und deshalb aktiv gestaltend transformiert werden müsste. Aber mit den GroKo-Rittern des Status Quo ist das nicht zu machen. Stattdessen faselt man volksverdummend von „Technologietransfer“ und rechnet damit, dass die Menschen unter „Technologie“ was mechanisches verstehen. Aber Patentfreigabe IST Technologietransfer, und zwar von der effektivsten Sorte. #Impfpatente (...)

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  • @hackernoon
    Hacker Noon @hackernoon CC BY-SA 12/03/2019

    What is Patent Thinking?
    ▻https://hackernoon.com/what-is-patent-thinking-511be4141b40?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

    https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/638/1*e7gurTWnX0NrQx0lMmNEbQ.png

    Patent Thinking is a new design methodology which combines Patent Design and Design Thinking. Using this new ideation methodology teams, startups, academia and enterprises can develop new ideas, products and processes by prototyping a lean patent application. The applied method could take the form of an individual work or a group activity.Patent thinking includes principles from technology, product management, product design, business and intellectual property.Patents are considered to be one of the most classic and well known forms of clearly depicting and protecting an innovative product/service or invention by a sole inventor or a group of inventors. #patents have clear rules and structure. They have high value due to the large effort, thought and resources inventors put in to get (...)

    #design-thinking #patent-thinking #product-management #product-design

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  • @openmandriva
    openmandriva @openmandriva CC BY-SA 14/10/2018
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    FSF statement on Microsoft joining the Open Invention Network — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
    ▻https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-statement-on-microsoft-joining-the-open-invention-network

    Microsoft’s announcements on October 4th and 10th, that it has joined both LOT and the Open Invention Network (OIN), are significant steps in the right direction, potentially providing respite from Microsoft’s well-known extortion of billions of dollars from free software redistributors.

    These steps, though, do not by themselves fully address the problem of computational idea patents, or even Microsoft’s specific infringement claims.

    #patents #Microsoft #OIN #Linux

    • #Microsoft
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  • @hackernoon
    Hacker Noon @hackernoon CC BY-SA 9/06/2018

    Community IP: the case for an ICO Patent fund
    ▻https://hackernoon.com/community-ip-the-case-for-an-ico-patent-fund-6ceb2098980c?source=rss----

    https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/720/1*PdPhQvTbITqaQ-h5kh8L8w.png

    In 2014 I applied for a patent on the particular type of hardware wallet i was developing at the time. I thought it was a good idea, once before someone else had patented something I had publicly disclosed and thought it a necessary to protect myself going forward. Long story short- I abandoned the patent process after vehement protest from some members in the then Bitcoin community. (Interestingly, I paid my lawyer in Bitcoin- perhaps one of the first transactions of it’s kind: BitcoinTalk). At the time I had been convinced the precedent was a bad one to follow, but I’ve never stopped thinking about how the ‘real’ world intersects with #blockchain- and how blockchain is increasingly become the ‘real’ world.It is inevitable that elements of blockchain will be patented, it’s already happening. (...)

    #patents #copyright #ico-patent-fund #community-ip

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  • @hackernoon
    Hacker Noon @hackernoon CC BY-SA 31/03/2018

    Wakanda year is #facebook having?
    ▻https://hackernoon.com/wakanda-year-is-facebook-having-bd391d52ad5c?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3-

    https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*UMsZcl8FhbLrsKEk0tOpQQ.png

    ▻https://goo.gl/Tb9zB8*Black Panther spoilers ahead*Now I’m not much of a moviegoer, but boy did I enjoy Black Panther! I especially loved the twist in the second half where T’challa rules Wakanda with the belief he the uncontested heir, only to be ousted by long-lost cousin Erik Killmonger. A similar saga seems to be taking place in US courts where #blackberry has claimed that a number of Facebook’s messaging features have been infringing Blackberry’s #patents. Be it in Black Panther, or BlackBerry, one common question sprang into my head: “Why did they wait so long?!”Blackberry’s 117-page complaint in the California District Court, alleging that Facebook and its subsidiaries, Whatsapp and Instagram, have been infringing seven of Blackberry’s patents. BlackBerry claimed that these patents were (...)

    #black-panther #intellectual-property

    • #Facebook
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  • @liotier
    liotier @liotier CC BY-SA 28/06/2016
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    This patent application drawing is probably the most American thing I’ve ever seen.

    http://i.imgur.com/3Hk0510.jpg

    Source: ▻https://www.google.com/patents/US8246454 - yes, it is a real patent application...
    #patents #advertising #mcdonalds #publicité #télévision #canapé #brevet #patent

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  • @fil
    Fil @fil 23/02/2016
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    @odilon
    @reka
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    @cyrille37
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    L’Inde dit non aux #brevets_logiciels
    ▻http://wap.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/no-patent-if-invention-lies-only-in-computer-programme-says-i

    No patent if invention lies only in computer programme, says Indian Patent Office - Business Standard

    The Indian Patent Office has come out with a new guideline for its officials to follow when deciding on applications related to software and hardware related inventions (...) if the contribution lies only in mathematical method, business method or algorithm, deny the claim.

    #patents #Inde

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  • @thibnton
    tbn @thibnton PUBLIC DOMAIN 18/12/2014
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    @opironet

    Global intellectual property filings see boost in 2013 – UN report
    ▻http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsId=49623

    The 2014 edition of the World Intellectual Property Indicators – a benchmark report gleaning data from 100 countries and released by the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) – noted that applications for trademarks, industrial designs and utility models increased over the last year, fuelled by strong demand in China, the United States and Japan.

    (…) Plant varieties, (…), reached “a new record,” according to WIPO, with around 15,200 filings worldwide – a 4.7 per cent increase in growth from the previous year.

    #propriété_intellectuelle #brevets #patents via @opironet

    • #China
    • #Japan
    • #United States
    • #United Nations
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  • @liotier
    liotier @liotier CC BY-SA 3/09/2014

    How to read a patent:
    ▻http://adlervermillion.com/how-to-read-a-patent #patents #brevets

    TL;DR: claims, claims, claims & subclaims !

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  • @liotier
    liotier @liotier CC BY-SA 27/05/2014
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    Open Source Seed Initiative: “Patents on naturally occurring biodiversity in plant breeding are an abuse of patent law,” the opposition statement read, “because instead of protecting inventions they become an instrument for the misappropriation of natural resources.”

    ▻http://www.vqronline.org/reporting-articles/2014/05/linux-lettuce
    #patents #seeds #semences #agriculture

    • #patent law
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  • @liotier
    liotier @liotier CC BY-SA 23/05/2014

    Newegg, patent troll slayer !
    ▻http://blog.newegg.com/patent-trolls-learn-mess-newegg #patents #Newegg

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  • @liotier
    liotier @liotier CC BY-SA 8/05/2014

    #Amazon #patents studio #photography on seamless white background:
    ▻http://www.photographybay.com/2014/05/05/amazon-patents-studio-photography-on-seamless-white-background

    http://www.photographybay.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Amazon-Patent-Seamless-White-Background-copy-640x523.jpg

    So the next time you post one of your studio shots of a subject against a white background, don’t be surprised if you get a cease and desist letter from Amazon ordering you to stop using Amazon’s novel approach to studio lighting.

    • #Amazon
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  • @fil
    Fil @fil 27/11/2013
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    @reka
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    Fire in the Blood - Dylan Mohan Gray (2013)

    #film #documentaire sur les #brevets, la #santé, l’accès aux traitements… (vu sur NRK2 « piratée » grâce à l’extension firefox #ipfuck)

    http://bollyspice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13sep_FireInBlood-India.jpg

    j’ai livetwitté en regardant :

    @jamie_love @ZackieAchmat starring in #FireInTheBlood on NRK2 now

    FireInTheBlood is a story about statistics — millions of people died

    In 1996 Edwin Cameron was saved by ARVs “most astonishing experience of my life”

    price of ARVs were set by US markets — unreachably high

    @ZackieAchmat and others founded the #TAC to fight pharma apartheid - and illegally imported generic drugs to save lives

    “no difference in quality” between expensive patented drugs and generics

    @jamie_love in Washington says no one seemed to see the problem… USAID Natsios’ racist comment about Africans and watches

    “Where are the drugs? The drugs are where the disease is not. Where is the disease? The disease is where the drugs are not”

    “[Big Pharma] would still make a profit at 5c” — even Bill Clinton agrees (now)

    @ZackieAchmat announced that he would boycott ARVs until the SA govt would make them available for everyone

    “If a few million white people would not have access to treatment, someone would have asked the question” — says @jamie_love

    CIPLA was founded because India should be “self-reliant” for medicine - and Indira Gandhi rejected patents at the time

    “NO #PATENTS ON LIFESAVING MEDECINES” (poster)

    Yusuf Hamied’s extraordinary offer to the UN: drop patents on ARVs and save lives!— hyperprofitable pharma refused

    Big Pharma lying on research, costs and just about everything

    “those drugs from India”… in fact the US industry was already outsourcing to India

    The “counterfeit drugs” argument in pharma is also a way to create FUD

    “A dollar a day” — the @jamie_love / CIPLA deal got “clearly the magic number”

    With generics finally in, governance became the main issue

    “As a doctor it was my job to try and save my patients’ life” — Peter Mugyenyi, Kampala

    Ah, the CIPRO story! Double standards to the max!

    The Global Fund “was working with drug companies to limit access to drugs", then GW Bush went to invade Iraq & created PEPFAR

    “Uncharacteristically the White House had not consulted with Big Pharma” :) didn’t last long!

    “Higher price: fewer lives saved.” Generics made the prices plummet. The number of ppl on treatment exploded

    #TRIPS, #TPP, #ACTA, #TAFTA and all this shit are made to reinforce the reign of #patents and “sign death warrants”

    What happens “for the next generation of drugs”? … future “genocide” in the making - “We need to do something!”

    @jamie_love: “we don’t have to accept this future” “we can act”

    “Help prevent a sequel!” — fight TRIPS+ and all the IP shit

    ▻http://fireintheblood.com devrait être projeté partout

    @Paul_da_Silva merci pour #IPFuck

    #sida #afrique_du_sud #ouganda #militer #brevets #propriété_intellectuelle

    • #Washington
    • #Cipla
    • #India
    • #United States
    • #disease
    • #United States Agency for International Development
    • #Dylan Mohan Gray
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    • @fil
      Fil @fil 22/01/2014
      @vacarme

      un article dans @vacarme : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/220288

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  • @liotier
    liotier @liotier CC BY-SA 18/11/2013
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    If the #TPP has not made you furious yet, here is a proposal to patent medical procedures - I would say that it is inhumane but, until you revolt against it, corporate crap like this shall be the logical thing for politicians to push:
    ▻http://www.citizen.org/documents/MEDICAL%20PROCEDURE%20PATENTS%20IN%20THE%20TPP.pdf #patents #medecine

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    • @fil
      Fil @fil 18/11/2013

      #santé #brevets #capitalisme_fou

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    • @iyhel
      Iyhel @iyhel CC BY-NC-SA 19/11/2013

      Quelqu’un sait-il ce qu’il en est dans l’équivalent transatlantique ?

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  • @fil
    Fil @fil 20/10/2013

    Interview with Chris DiBona of Google | opensource.com
    ▻http://opensource.com/business/13/10/interview-chris-dibona

    we’ve seen a growth in the number of people in companies working on #open_source, and I perceive a slight decline in open source participation in the academy, which I blame on the tech-transfer/bayh-dole patenting process being a real barrier to code licensing. Similarly, some open source coming out of universities and companies simply isn’t open source enough as there is a fair amount of side dealing going around on around #patents.

    • #Google
    • #Chris DiBona
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  • @liotier
    liotier @liotier CC BY-SA 18/10/2013

    A startling proportion of today’s scientific papers can’t be replicated:
    ▻http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21588069-scientific-research-has-changed-world-now-it-needs-change-itself-how-science-goes-wrong?fsrc=scn/rd_ec/how_science_goes_wrong

    Good article, but it forgets the impact of patenting in encouraging the use of proprietary protocols that prevent reproduction of the experiments:
    ▻http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1ool54/a_startling_proportion_of_todays_scientific/ccu1moz
    #science #research #patents

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  • @liotier
    liotier @liotier CC BY-SA 7/10/2013
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    Vincent’s foray in folding chair design is one more proof that no one creates anything without being influenced by their environment. Think about it when considering how we should manage intellectual property.
    ▻http://vincentsanders.blogspot.fr/2013/10/if-i-have-style-i-am-not-aware-of-it.html #design #copyright #patents

    http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7347/9833114373_20fbddd7b4_c.jpg

    • #chair
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  • @thibnton
    tbn @thibnton PUBLIC DOMAIN 17/09/2013
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    ’Tech’ Is Misnomer for Internet Giants | Business
    ▻http://www.washingtonspectator.org/index.php/Economics/tech-is-a-misnomer-for-internet-giants.html

    The British humorist Douglas Adams once summed up the trajectory of computers and the internet in four teleological sentences: "First, we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII—and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television." Finally, observed Adams, "with the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure."

    They aren’t about math and science and building things. They are about acquiring, processing, and selling information to steer consumers toward a purchase.
    Of course, the computer is all these things today, and now with ubiquitous wireless networks, the computer has become the all-in-one mobile device. It’s the phone-camera-computer-walkman-TV-gameboy-GPS all in one.

    Je découvre ces « teleological sentences » de D. Adams et je les trouve belles.

    With one #algorithm Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin built an advertising giant the likes of which the world has never seen. The first step, in classic Silicon Valley tech form, was to patent the invention in order to create an extremely valuable monopoly. Patent No. 6,285,999, a “method for node ranking in a linked database,” did the trick. Stanford University owned the rights and licensed the invention to Page and Brin (who conveniently put the president of the university on their company’s board of directors). The terms of that license remain undisclosed, but it has #Google paying #Stanford a pretty penny. That single patented equation allowed Google to offer a search engine that provided, on average, search results that were of seemingly higher quality, and more relevant to users.

    Then in a flurry of activity that has never stopped, Google’s code writers proceeded to file 228 distinct #patents based directly on the original “method for node ranking in a linked database” invention. On top of this, the company filed another 3,079 patents, the majority of which are intended to monopolize infinitely more clever means of gathering and processing the personal and social information of web users so as to sell ads at higher and higher rates.

    So why do we call Google a “tech” company if most of what it does is advertising? (...) Perhaps then #Silicon_Valley ’s finest should be called the new ad industry?

    #tech_companies #publicité

    • #Google
    • #internet giants
    • #Douglas Adams
    • #humorist
    • #ascii
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    • @paulo
      Paulo @paulo 17/09/2013

      très drôle, parce que vrai

      Paulo @paulo
    • @thibnton
      tbn @thibnton PUBLIC DOMAIN 3/11/2013

      Angry Over U.S. Surveillance, Tech Giants Bolster Defenses - By Claire Cain Miller
      New York Times, 1er novembre 2013
      ▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/01/technology/angry-over-us-surveillance-tech-giants-bolster-defenses.html

      companies are building technical fortresses intended to make the private information in which they trade inaccessible to the government and other suspected spies.

      Yet even as they take measures against government collection of personal information, their business models rely on collecting that same data, largely to sell personalized ads. So no matter the steps they take, as long as they remain ad companies, they will be gathering a trove of information that will prove tempting to law enforcement and spies.

      tbn @thibnton PUBLIC DOMAIN
    • @thibnton
      tbn @thibnton PUBLIC DOMAIN 21/11/2013
      @opironet

      The New #Mobile Advertising Ecosystem Explained via @opironet que je remercie
      ▻http://www.businessinsider.com/the-new-mobile-advertising-landscape-2013-11

      http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/5278fd6cecad046950b9da50-960/mobile%20advertising%20graphic%20final.png

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  • @mdiplo
    Le Monde diplomatique @mdiplo PUBLIC DOMAIN 18/06/2013
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    Course aux brevets, prime au gâchis, par Dean Baker (#2012/08 en accès libre)
    ▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2012/08/BAKER/48031

    Victoire aigre-douce pour la société Samsung dans le conflit juridique qui l’oppose à Apple : la justice britannique a estimé que sa tablette ne plagiait pas celle de la marque à la pomme puisqu’elle n’était pas « aussi cool ». La guerre des #brevets se poursuivra néanmoins, absorbant des millions de dollars au prétexte de protéger l’#innovation. Mais n’existerait-il pas d’autres moyens de stimuler l’invention de choses utiles ?

    #Patents #Santé #Internet #Économie #Entreprise #Technologie #Industrie_pharmaceutique #Propriété_industrielle #Propriété_intellectuelle #Technologies_de_l’information #États-Unis

    • #Apple
    • #Samsung
    • #Dean Baker
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      petit-écran de fumée @petit_ecran_de_fumee 18/06/2013

      concurrence vs coopération... le grand gâchis humain...

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  • @hlc
    Articles repérés par Hervé Le Crosnier @hlc CC BY 16/04/2013
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    The Novartis Decision: A Tale Of Developing Countries, IP, And The Role Of The Judiciary | Intellectual Property Watch
    ▻http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/04/15/the-novartis-decision-a-tale-of-developing-countries-ip-and-the-role-of-th

    The worldwide attention received by the Indian SC ruling and its global implications could represent a turning point. For decades, scholars and students from all over the world spent a considerable time studying decisions by judicial authorities in industrialised countries, in particular those of the US Supreme Court. Several of these decisions marked the emergence of new trends and approaches to intellectual property that, in some cases, would be subsequently incorporated into international agreements and would also heavily influence intellectual property legislations in developing countries.

    The Novartis decision might be spearheading a world where judicial decisions from countries such as China, India and Brazil have an increasing global reach and contribute to shaping global approaches to intellectual property. It is also more generally reflective of the growing assertiveness of developing countries, particularly emerging economies, in the current global intellectual property landscape. In the past two years, opposition from these countries was an important factor in the broader mobilization that led to the de facto demise of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

    • #Novartis
    • #US Supreme Court
    • #Intellectual Property Watch
    Articles repérés par Hervé Le Crosnier @hlc CC BY
    • @fil
      Fil @fil 17/04/2013

      #brevets #patents #brics

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  • @liotier
    liotier @liotier CC BY-SA 16/03/2013
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    Starting today, the US has a ‘first to file’ patent system, so you can leave that prior art at the door - ▻http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/03/16/starting-today-the-us-has-a-first-to-file-patent-system-so-you-can-leave

    Count on large firms to allocate a yearly budget for obnoxiously filing anything they can think about, just in case they can milk that later. Small firms and individuals can’t do that, so this system is essentially a great way to entrench major firms as patent trolls.

    • #United States
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      liotier @liotier CC BY-SA 17/03/2013

      Seems like this article is misleading - ▻http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2013/03/16/a-brave-new-patent-world-first-to-file-becomes-law/id=37601 provides better and deeper analysis.

      liotier @liotier CC BY-SA
    • @fil
      Fil @fil 17/03/2013

      #brevets #patents

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  • @liotier
    liotier @liotier CC BY-SA 15/03/2013
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    Video codecs: the ugly business behind pretty pictures - ▻https://www.infoworld.com/print/214525 #patents

    • #Google
    • #mpeg
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    • @fil
      Fil @fil 15/03/2013

      ... to sublicense the techniques to any user of VP8, whether the VP8 implementation is by Google or another entity; this means that users can develop independent implementations of VP8 and still enjoy coverage under the sublicenses.

      The announcement goes on to make two more important statements. First, Google intends to submit VP8 to MPEG for standardization. This would be a profound change in direction, potentially steering future efforts away from the patent thicket and toward open ground. Second, Google intends to propose V P8 be selected as the “mandatory to implement” codec in the RTCWEB group at IETF that’s defining protocols to enable real-time communications in Web browsers: WebRTC.

      If all this were to succeed, it would unlock immense opportunity for open source software and the open Web. Freed from constant rent-seeking by patent owners, open source developers would at last be free to innovate on audio and video applications of all kinds without constantly looking over their shoulders or asking permission to innovate.

      ok donc… ce serait en fait le contraire de ce que racontait ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/121344 ?

      #brevets #patents #codec #video

      Fil @fil
    • @stephane
      Stéphane Bortzmeyer @stephane CC BY-SA 16/03/2013

      À la réunion IETF d’Orlando, qui vient de se terminer, le groupe de travail RTCWEB était à la fois une des vedettes de la réunion (tout le monde en parlait, puisque les travaux de ce groupe pourraient secouer pas mal de positions établies), un des groupes les plus stakhanovistes (plusieurs réunions) et un des moins efficaces : ils ont fini par se séparer sans avoir pu décider d’un codec...

      Stéphane Bortzmeyer @stephane CC BY-SA
    • @stephane
      Stéphane Bortzmeyer @stephane CC BY-SA 16/03/2013

      Sur VP8, voir ►http://www.bortzmeyer.org/6386.html

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  • @fil
    Fil @fil 12/03/2013
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    Cheap drugs a bitter pill for the West | Mail & Guardian
    ▻http://mg.co.za/article/2013-03-08-00-cheap-drugs-a-bitter-pill-for-the-west

    The Ugandan government faced an easy choice when it decided to start producing its own version of a key malaria treatment, rather than continuing to rely on expensive imports. Since the country began making its own medicine in 2007, Uganda has produced not only anti-malarials, but also antiretrovirals (ARVs) used to treat HIV. The public-private company, Quality Chemicals, plans to roll out more ARVs, anti-malarials and antibiotics in the coming months and years. 

    The venture, a shining example of African pharmaceutical manufacturing, was made possible in part because Uganda is considered a “least-developed country”. As such, it doesn’t yet have to respect international intellectual property laws (...)

    But least-developed countries may be running out of time. They have until July to adopt the agreement’s measures into their own laws and a continued extension for pharmaceutical products until 2016.

    #pharma #brevets #patents #ldc #paludisme #sida #hiv

    • #Mail & Guardian
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    • #malaria treatment
    • #HIV
    • #Ugandan government
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    Suske @suske 22/11/2012

    Brevets logiciels en Europe

    La présidence chypriote trouve que c’est le moment de forcer « un peu » la main au Parlement européen : il y tant d’autres préoccupations plus importantes... Et puis ces sales gamin-e-s doivent comprendre que ce qui compte c’est l’économie donc le business non ?

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    Unitary Patent: Council asks Parliament to sign its death certificate in patent law ===================================================================================

    Brussels, 21 November 2012 — This monday, the Cypriot Presidency stated in parliament that they are “aware of concerns that the legislator can be deprived of their legislative competence”. In fact the new patent compromise is similar to the “a death certificate in patent law” for the European Parliament, says Benjamin Henrion, president of the FFII.

    According to leaks published by PCinpact, the latest compromise seeks to remove the role of the European Parliament and the European Court of Justice from any power in the proposed patent system (articles 6-8).

    Benjamin Henrion, president of FFII, warns: “The Council asks basically to the European Parliament to sign their death certificate in patent law. No part of the proposed system will be under the control of an elected legislator. This is a disaster for all the people that believes in the power of the European Parliament.”

    All red lines imposed by the Parliament has been broken by the Council
    compromise:

    the enhanced cooperation (art118), with reference to national law,
    still does not create a title of the European Union;
    the Parliament is deprived of its legislative competence in patent
    law;
    the European Court of Justice is forbidden to have a say on patent
    law, especially on substantive matters, such as software patents.

    The Rapporteur and MEP Klaus-Heiner Lehne has been pushing the “death certificate” proposal to be voted for in the next Plenary at the 10th December, refusing any reopening of the discussions at committee level.

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    Cyprus press release: Unitary patent closer to the finishing line ►http://www.cy2012.eu/index.php/en/news-categories/areas/competitiveness/press-release-unitary-patent-closer-to-the-finishing-line

    FFII: Klaus-Heiner Lehne: software patent legislator and lobbying consultant ►http://wiki.ffii.org/KlausHeinerLehneEn

    PCInpact: Brevet unitaire européen : un compromis veut écarter l’Union européenne ►http://www.pcinpact.com/news/75393-brevet-unitaire-europeen-compromis-veut-ecarter-union-europeenne.htm

    Max Planck Institut: The Unitary Patent Package: Twelve Reasons for Concern ►http://www.ip.mpg.de/files/pdf2/MPI-IP_Twelve-Reasons_2012-10-17_final3.pdf

    Permanent link to this press release ►https://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/Unitary%20Patent%3A%20Council%20asks%20Parliament%20to%20sign%20its%20de

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    Benjamin Henrion
    FFII Brussels
    Mobile: +32-484-566109
    Email: bhenrion@ffii.org

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    About FFII
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    The FFII is a not-for-profit association active in twenty European countries, dedicated to the development of information goods for the public benefit, based on copyright, free competition, open standards. More than 1000 members, 3,500 companies and 100,000 supporters have entrusted the FFII to act as their voice in public policy questions concerning exclusion rights (intellectual
    property) in data processing.

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    (un)subscribe via ►https://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/news, or contact media@ffii.org for more information.

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      tbn @thibnton PUBLIC DOMAIN 23/11/2012

      #brevets #patents

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  • @grommeleur
    grommeleur @grommeleur 30/09/2012
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    The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them)
    ►http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/the-case-for-abolishing-patents-yes-all-of-them/262913

    A closer look at the historical and international evidence suggests that while weak patent systems may mildly increase innovation with limited side-effects, strong patent systems retard innovation with many negative side-effects.

    #brevets

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      tbn @thibnton PUBLIC DOMAIN 1/10/2012

      #patents

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