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Mozelle Thompson, FTC Commissioner (InternetNews.com)
Internet News talks
with FTC commissioner Mozelle Thompson about spam, patents and other
topics. "There should be a means to have the Patent Office
re-examine patent they've granted. One thing we've talked about is to
provide the Patent Office with better tools that would give them more
granularity to understand and consider the difference between an idea and a
technical standard, so they can understand that granting a patent might be
overbroad or have unintended consequences." (Thanks to Doug Jensen)
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"better tools" Posted May 11, 2004 23:20 UTC (Tue) by cginzel (guest, #21537) [Link] Curious, I've not seen anyone suggest that the F/OSS community develop such a tool for use by the Patent Office... I've read so much about how patents are bad for open source and that the community scratches its own itch. If bad patents are an itch, where's the scratch?!
Mozelle Thompson, FTC Commissioner (InternetNews.com) Posted May 12, 2004 0:58 UTC (Wed) by meffie (guest, #3120) [Link] Q: How do you think the antitrust settlement with Microsoft is working?No comment. I wonder why he's being so shy :)
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