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EU Commission Plans to Allow Patent Imperialism, Authorises MS’s Attack on FOSS

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The EU Commission wants Michel Barnier to make the Community patent a reality ("community" being a euphemism that would fascinate even Orwell)

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FSFE Highlights Brad Smith’s Attack on Free Software, Microsoft Blogs Present Smith’s Spin

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Microsoft's legal team keeps trying to screw Free software and people do notice, then respond

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Recession's latest victim: U.S. innovation

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U.S. innovation slowed this year for the first time in 13 years as the recession cut into budgets, and costs to protect inventions rose. The system is broken.. Pushing patents through the system is easier said than done: The decline in filings this year has brought to light a number of problems with the antiquated American patent system.

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Microsoft Gets Its Way in the European Commission

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The Microsoft-stuffed European Commission is caving in to Microsoft and the threat of software patents in Europe grows

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McCreevy’s Suicidal Patent Battle to Harm Europe Glorified in Irish Press

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The eternal battle to win a unified/harmonised/communal patent system (lobbied for by Charlie McCreevy, amongst others under these euphemisms) makes dangerous strides that threaten Free software

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Martin Goetz Ridiculed for Starting and Harbouring Software Patents

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A defense of software patents backfires in the eyes of some; more news about the harms of intellectual monopolies

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Tim Berners-Lee: “Software Patents Are a Terrible Thing”

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While software patents threaten to invade Europe, Sir Tim Berners-Lee antagonises their existence

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ACTA is on Europe’s Agenda (Next Monday) as Patent Devils Lurk

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Attempts to exorcise software patents are met with resistance through secret trade agreements like ACTA

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Does “Tivoization” Also Mean Massively Suing All Competitors Using Software Patents?

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TiVo's shift to a strategy of patent litigation is not paying off, patent trolling becomes common, Microsoft rides the wave

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Patent Tax and Microsoft Tax in Europe: An Update

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A look at the Gemstar case, ACTA-EU leak, Microsoft's second "TV tax", and an older video reedited

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Video Transcript of Vandana Shiva on Insane Patents

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Vandana Shiva talks about patenting of seeds; other examples of privatisation with patents and funding.

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Study: Intellectual Monopolies (Patents) Vastly Dominated by… the Monopolies

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A not-so-overly-alarmist reminder of how monopolies are taking over society using self-serving laws and establishments, including the patent office

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The Case for a Mono-Free Ubuntu and Novell’s Case for a Mono Fee Ubuntu

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Canonical's route to escaping Microsoft's patent extortion is simple owing to gThumb and Gnote, but will it manage to see Mono's agenda?

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Do Patent Deals with Microsoft Knock GNU/Linux Vendors Out of GNU/Linux Business?

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How four vendors of desktop GNU/Linux lost their direction after joining Microsoft's software patents racket

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Microsoft, the EPO, and the European Patent Mafia (Sisvel) Join Hands

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Familiar bedfellows come together for an event that celebrates intellectual monopoly (Innovation 2009)

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