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China View: New U.S. System to Review Software Patents
Nov 4, 2006, 13 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (5371 reads)

"American companies General Electric, IBM,, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have joined with the New York Law School and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to inaugarate a new system of peer review for software patents.

"The four companies, plus Red Hat, the world's biggest listed open source software business, are the lead sponsors behind the Community Patent Review project..."

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your chickens will be quite safe!---Grey ...   Rest assured, said the Foxes, .....   
GreyGeek
Nov 4, 2006, 15:52:48
 
I think that the companies involved in p ...   Good faith effort   
Steve Stites
Nov 4, 2006, 18:07:47
 
I'm sure they intend to reform the p ...   Re: Good faith effort -- perhaps   
Charles Hixson
Nov 4, 2006, 19:56:29
 
According to RMS, software patents are b ...   According to RMS this makes it worse, and I agree   
JJS
Nov 5, 2006, 01:09:10
 
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