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		<title>Brazilian patent office software patent consultation</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2012/03/brazilian-swpat-consultation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazil&#8217;s patent office has launched a consultation about granting software patents.
Please join the ESP-Br mailing list and help us: discussao-br (Portuguese).
The patent office&#8217;s page about the consultation is here: Consulta pública sobre exame de patente implementada por software.
For info and links, there are ESP wiki pages in English:

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Brazil
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Brazilian_patent_office_consultation_2012

And in Portuguese:

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Brasil
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Consulta_brasileira_do_escritório_de_patentes_2012
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Talk:Discuss_this_wiki_in_Portuguese

The deadline appears to be May [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Software patents don&#8217;t scale&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2012/03/software-patents-dont-scale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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  Timothy B. Lee and Christina Mulligan have published an good article:



    The problem with software patents? They don&#8217;t scale
  

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		<title>New ESP Australia video plus committee hearing recording</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2012/02/esp-oz-video/</link>
		<comments>http://news.swpat.org/2012/02/esp-oz-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
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Two exiting recordings from Australia:



Ben Sturmfels&#8217; recent presentation: Ending Software Patents in Australia (video)


and


Audio of the committee hearing on software patents in the House of Representatives


Or, to view Ben&#8217;s presentation in WebM format via YouTube, first go to YouTube&#8217;s HTML5 page to make sure everything works.  Then you can watch Ben&#8217;s presentation at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzz-w55D9vM.
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		<title>EU court advisors: owning software ideas detrimental to progress</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/12/eu-legal-advistors/</link>
		<comments>http://news.swpat.org/2011/12/eu-legal-advistors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
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  There are no patents involved in the SAS Institute v. World Programing Ltd case, but there&#8217;s a very interesting statement from the European Court of Justice&#8217;s legal advisors, the Advocates-General:


To accept that a functionality of a computer program can be protected as such would amount to making it possible to monopolise ideas, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study calculates economic harm from patent trolls</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/11/trolls/</link>
		<comments>http://news.swpat.org/2011/11/trolls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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By studying the movements of the stock market, three researchers from Boston University School of Law have found that over the past twenty years patent trolls have cost publicly listed US product developers 500 billion US$, and the rate is rising year by year.  They&#8217;ve also shown that very little of this is transfered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ESP Australia presentation recording</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/11/esp-australia-presentation-recording/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Ben Sturmfels of ESP Australia recently gave a talk outlining the problems caused by software patents.  A recording is online at:
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		<title>Petition This American Life to use Ogg Vorbis</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/09/petition-this-american-life-to-use-ogg-vorbis/</link>
		<comments>http://news.swpat.org/2011/09/petition-this-american-life-to-use-ogg-vorbis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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  NPR published a really excellent article on patent trolls in the software industry.  Great.  They then broadcast a radio version on This American Life.  Great exposure for the issue, but, it was published in the still-patented MP3 format.


Sign FSF&#8217;s petition for the show to be published in Ogg Vorbis format


 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU: A presentation about the unitary patent (unitary-patent.eu)</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/09/eu-a-presentation-about-the-unitary-patent-unitary-patent-eu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks at unitary-patent.eu have made a video to explain the dangers of this proposal:

A presentation about the unitary patent

(For further information, see en.swpat.org/wiki/Unitary_patent&#160;)
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		<title>Europe&#8217;s &#8220;unitary patent&#8221; could mean unlimited software patents</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/08/europes-unitary-patent-could-mean-unlimited-software-patents/</link>
		<comments>http://news.swpat.org/2011/08/europes-unitary-patent-could-mean-unlimited-software-patents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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ESP ed. note: The following article by Richard Stallman was originally published in The Guardian.  I&#8217;m republishing it here verbatim.  For ESP&#8217;s information this topic, see the ESP wiki article Unitary patent.


Originally published in The Guardian.  Re-published here with permission:
Copyright 2011 Richard Stallman
Released under the Creative Commons Attribution Noderivs 3.0 license.


Just as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More problems than just trolls</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/08/more-than-trolls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Rob Tiller (Red Hat) has posted an interesting article about three mainstream articles (NPR, The Economist, Professor Mark Lemley) discussing problems caused by software patents.


That&#8217;s great news.  Awareness of certain problems is growing in the mainstream press, but discussion of solutions is still quite shallow.


Trolls, innovation, and the economy

First, a glance at the three [...]]]></description>
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