Videos: EFF's Patent Busting Leader, Patents in Europe, and More Patent FUD
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2007-07-31 03:22:32 UTC
Modified: 2007-07-31 03:22:32 UTC
Patents in America
At risk of generalisation or exclusion (the EFF is working overseas as well), here is a presentation which speaks about eliminating poor patents in America. This talk is part of Google's TechTalks.
Danny O'Brien is the Activism Coordinator for the EFF. His job is to help EFF's membership in making their voice heard: in government and regulatory circles, in the marketplace, and with the wider public. Jason Schultz
Jason Schultz is a Staff Attorney specializing in intellectual property and reverse engineering. He currently leads EFF's Patent Busting Project. Prior to joining EFF, Schultz worked at the law firm of Fish & Richardson P.C., where he spent most of his time invalidating software patents and defending open source developers in law suits.
Patents in Europe
There is this one short video from Europe. It seems to be very amateur, but it is also hard to find such videos, so it might as well be included here.
The [GPLv3] issues can be dealt with, but they need to be considered early, as a different approach to programming and distribution may be required to meet your needs.
There are some other publications which seem to be defending their own turf. As an example, consider this seminar from the AIPLA, which merely serves its own agenda (promoting more patents and stronger patents).
Maybe this is very innocent, but they seem to have taken a solid, stable program from a high-profile Frenchman and looked for ways to marry it with GitHub, i.e. Microsoft/NSA
People leak a lot of material to Techrights because they know, based on the track record, that the sources will be protected and whatever gets published will stay online, in full, no matter how stubborn an effort (even lawsuits and blackmail) will be sent its way
Based on last month's leak, some very extensive layoffs are now imminent [...] Perhaps we can expect a lot of noise, some of it spewed out by bots, to distract from or belittle the impending mass layoffs
