20090830 Patent System as Always Favours Monopolists Different Rules Apply to Them

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Technology Majors Win Ruling That Limits Patent Damages

Technology majors Intel, Apple, Cisco and Microsoft have won an appeals court ruling that limits the amount of patent damages they will have to pay for products shipped outside the US.

http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/3432067 Microsoft v. i4i: Relevance of the Pending Reexamination

Pending Reexamination: Microsoft has submitted its motion for a stay of injunctive relief pending the outcome of its appeal to the Federal Circuit. Oddly, the first sentence of Microsoft's introduction begins with a statement that the PTO "already had provisionally rejected upon reexamination as anticipated and obvious." By 'provisionally rejected' Microsoft means that a non-final office action has been mailed out in the ex parte reexamination that it requested in November 2008 (the litigation was filed in March 2007).

http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/08/microsoft-v-i4i-relevance-of-the-pending-reexamination.html Microsoft wins fast-track appeal of Word ban http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137107/Microsoft_wins_fast_track_appeal_of_Word_ban?taxonomyId=17 I4i v. Microsoft (2009, USA) http://en.swpat.org/wiki/I4i_v._Microsoft

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Patenting of human genes

Dr. Shuster, who has a doctorate in molecular pathology conceded that patents on genes hinder medical practice.

http://iitrade.ac.in/news-detail.asp?news=719

Intellectual Monopolies Kill: Two Examples

If people with breast cancer genes are demonstrably suffering in this way, statistics tells us that some of them will be dying as a direct result of Myriad's aggressive defence of its unwarranted intellectual monopolies.

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/intellectual-monopolies-kill-two.html