Patents are bad
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Says the President of the United States
19/2/2013
The Register: Obama says patent trolls 'extort money', pledges reform
Says the inventor
"“we enjoy[ed] great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours.” (Benjamin Franklin) quoted in the Economist: Patents that kill
Says the economist
9/2012
Professors Michele Boldrin and David Levine, at Washington University in St. Louis, argue that any patent system, no matter how well conceived, is bound to devolve into the kind of quagmire we're dealing with today.
Article on The Atlantic web site: The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them)
Says the high-tech CEO
17/10/2012
On CNET: Amazon's Bezos: Patent suits 'might start to stifle innovation' (time for government to step in !)
Says the ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
7/2012
"We are seeing an unwelcome trend in today's marketplace to use standards-essential patents to block markets" (Hamadoun Touré, ITU secretary-general)
- PCWorld: ITU Plans Conference to Address Surge in Litigation Over Standards-essential Patents
- Intellectual Asset Management: The ITU joins the Something Must Be Done brigade on standards-essential patent litigation
- The Register: UN deploys ITU to seek FRAND patent peace treaty
Says the lawyer
7/2012
On Forbes: If You Can't Innovate, Litigate, by David Balto, lawyer, former policy director for FTC bureau of competition.
Says the judge
7/2012
The Register: Judge: Patent litigants behave like animals
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