#patents

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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▻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

This patent application drawing is probably the most American thing I’ve ever seen.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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)

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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

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

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.

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

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

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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

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

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).

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.

Video codecs: the ugly business behind pretty pictures - ▻https://www.infoworld.com/print/214525 #patents

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

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

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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
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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

Samsung Wins a Patent Case Over Apple in Japan - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/technology/in-japan-a-setback-for-apples-patent-fight.html

While Apple prevailed over Samsung in the United States, [...] the two companies remain neck-and-neck in legal disputes in almost a dozen countries

#patents