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Yet More Reality Distortion Fields From Microsoft's Ex-Chief Patent Counsel in Collaboration With IAM

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Summary: Another new example of software patents advocacy from IAM, with help from Microsoft's people (or 'former' people)

NOT only patent trolls, the PR firm of the EPO and various patent law firms send money IAM's way. Joff Wild has quite a few hands feeding him and these tend to be ardent advocates of patent wars (they profit from wars). It's not really a news site, even if Google News recognises it as such. It is agenda. Sometimes it's marketing.



Earlier today IAM gave readers the impression of software patents resurgence. As we have been showing here for a number of months, this could not be further from the truth and this claim comes (or sourced) from Microsoft's former Patent Counsel, Bart Eppenauer. Joff Wild previously gave Bart Eppenauer a voice/platform in his Microsoft-powered site for similar reasons. It is not too shocking to find the site once again being composed, by proxy, by Microsoft folks in order to promote software patents, like those which Microsoft uses to continue its war on GNU/Linux, Android, ChromeOS, and Free software in general.

"It is not too shocking to find the site once again being composed, by proxy, by Microsoft folks in order to promote software patents, like those which Microsoft uses to continue its war on GNU/Linux, Android, ChromeOS, and Free software in general."Wild wants us to believe that just two decisions (among many thousands) at CAFC (a corruptible court by the way), one of which involved Microsoft directly, somehow mean "eligibility nightmare the US software and biotech industries have been going through may – just may – be coming to an end."

Well, the very opposite is true as SCOTUS refuses to revisit anything that pertains to Alice and litigation fell sharply. Lies by omission, selection, cherry-picking or just wishful thinking? Microsoft, a lobbyist for software patents, is hardly a reliable or objective source regarding software patents (especially in cases that involve Microsoft) and Joff Wild is experienced enough to know this. Does IAM even make an attempt to hide its agenda (and Microsoft's) any longer? It has been getting pretty shallow.

This is what we often allude to as the problem of patent lawyers dominating if not abducting the media and thus controlling (or distorting) the message.

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