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linuxlock.blogspot.com - 12/10/2008

Linux - Stop holding our kids back

— linuxlock.blogspot.com — This blog is momentarily interrupted to bring you a snippet of recently received email. "...observed one of... my students with a group of other children gathered around his laptop. Upon looking at his computer, I saw he was giving a demonstration of ... (more) Linux - Stop holding our kids back

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ip.com - 12/9/2008

IP.com

— ip.com — New Models of Intellectual Property November 13, 2008 Johnson Kong , IP.com's Executive Vice President and head... of Asia Pacific to co-chair with Mr. Martin Wolf of the Financial Times on the upcoming Salzburg Global Seminar on Sat 06 December - Thu ... (more) IP.com

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linuxoniphone.blogspot.com - 12/4/2008

Linux on the iPhone

— linuxoniphone.blogspot.com — Donate your time and skills if you can rather than money. If you cannot do so, please... consider sponsoring something we could directly use: Such as a USB serial cable (about $45 for parts from Sparkfun ), or perhaps upgrading the Slicehost slice we're ... (more) Linux on the iPhone

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Linux, Open Source Get Patent Protection Program
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Open Invention Network (OIN) unveiled a program Tuesday that aims to make it easier for patent and trademark office examiners -- and others -- to access prior art, increase the quality of patents granted, decrease the number of poor quality patents. The Linux Defenders program , sponsored by the ...

Open-Source Companies Band Together To Fend Off Patent Trolls (IBM)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Here's how it works: Open-source programmers file their inventions at the Linux Defenders website (not yet operational). Staff then document the invention and file attribution with ...

File your open source code with Linux Defenders
Open Source — ... But if you want to prove your authorship of open source code and protect it from patent trolls, perhaps you should file. With Linux Defenders. ...

Linux patent program finances "defensive publications"
Linux-Watch.com — ... software." Stated Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. "The open source community is getting an IP rights tool that will limit distractions created from organizations that like to play the FUD game." Stated Keith Bergelt, CEO of OIN, "This landmark program will benefit open source innovation by significantly reducing the number of poor quality patents that might otherwise be used by patent trolls or strategics." More information on Linux Defenders may be found here . OIN's site may be found ...

Nonstop Parties, Patent Trolls and Members Choice Awards
LinuxInsider — ... tuxchick, adding, "OK so I was going to have pie and ice cream anyway. This just makes it an official occasion :)" Linux Defenders Network All partying aside, there were also conversations of a more serious kind in the blogosphere over the last week or so, and particularly notable were two on Slashdot regarding Linux and patent trolls. For those who missed it, earlier this month the Open Invention Network, the Software Freedom Law Center and The Linux Foundation launched the Linux Defenders Network , a group that aims to help the community defend itself against patent ...

TomTom gets allies in Microsoft Linux patent lawsuit fight
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — When Microsoft first sued TomTom for patent violations in TomTom's Linux-powered navigation devices, I wasn't sure how much of a fight TomTom would put up. Legally TomTom was between a rock and a hard place. You can't use restricted-use patents in GPLed software. If Microsoft just wanted to use the lawsuit as a hostile takeover tactic , TomTom didn't have anything like Microsoft's financial resources to fight them with. But, while TomTom may be out-gunned by Microsoft, the OIN ( Open Invention Network ) isn't. TomTom joined OIN on March 23. The OIN is an intellectual property company that was ...

OIN suggests patent reform on the fly
Open Source — Open Innovation Network (OIN) CEO Keith Bergelt enjoyed my recent analogy of his work to that of a bomb disposal team. He also liked Paula’s story. But his motive for talking was to push the story forward, and to say that the Obama Administration is going to give us patent reform on-the-fly. He said we can be a part of it. Yes, we can, because the new Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property is David Kappos. Besides having a nice hair line (so much like my own) Kappos “gets it.” He came to the ...