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As the software industry continues to be embroiled in a long-lasting all-out software patent war, the European Union is planning to follow the same course. When the Hargreaves report urged the UK to avoid software patents, The UK government already approved a plan that will likely enforce them. Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on ideas. It is not a good idea to develop non-trivial software if you must incorporate a maze of patents...
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the European Patent Office (EPO) in Germany on Tuesday as officials reviewed a groundbreaking case involving a patent awarded to a British firm for a technique to boost levels of a substance in broccoli that could help prevent cancer.The method involves identifying the relevant genes on the broccoli genome and mapping them to genetic markers, then selecting the broccoli lines with these markers for use in plant breeding.However, competitors to the...
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, announced today the publication of Patent Prosecution: Law, Practice, and Procedure, Sixth Edition. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090529/DC24463LOGO) The treatise provides element-by-element analysis of the substantive areas of patent law by drawing on author Irah Donners' years of research and practical experience. The new Sixth Edition covers cases...
Nowotarski to Discuss Tools to Overcome Obviousness Rejections in Patent Applications STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Mark Nowotarski, President of Markets, Patents & Alliances L.L.C., will present new tools for overcoming "obviousness rejections" in patent applications, at this year's "Patent Forum 2009" in San Francisco. He will serve on the panel entitled "Redefining Obviousness in the Post-KSR Period: The Implications & Impact on Litigation." Nowotarski will argue...
