Society Issues Intellectual Property Patents

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• Science: Technology: Invention and Innovation  (44)
• Society: Activism: Media: Culture Jamming: Patenting Own Genes  (6)
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• Against Patenting Lifeforms - A spiritual argument against the patenting of life forms by biotech companies
• AMNews: Unlocking innovation - Patents on procedures hurt patients - The American Medical Association opposes patents on medical procedures. Here is one of their articles on the issue.
• Boycott Amazon! - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) - The biggest software organization in the world calls for a boycott of Amazon for its predatory, monopolistic attempts to control basic web ideas.
• End Software Patents - A project working towards the elimination of software patents by assisting corporations that choose to challenge such patents in the courts, and by public education aimed at promoting a legislative solution. News, resources, and ways to help.
• European Anti-Software Patent Bribe Pledge Drive - Promotes the idea of bribes to fight software patents.
• Internet Patent News - Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce
• The Non-Patent Side of Software Patents - Slideshow presentation exploring the implications of and criticizing software patents.
• NoSoftwarePatents.com - Campaign website against software patents in the EU. (Different languages)
• Protecting Information Innovation against the Abuse of the Patent System - A documentation of software patents focusing on Europe, patent data, article reviews, and news.
• Slashdot - Patents - Featuring patent news, links and discussion.
• Software Patents Mailing List - Mailing list discussions about the economic consequences of patents in the software industry.
• Vienna University - Intellectual Property Rights for the Rich and the Poor? - Summarizes and discusses the impact of the introduction of IPRs protection on developing and least developed countries in accordance with the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement.
• A Worldwide Fight Against Biopiracy and Patents on Life - Farmers and indigenous peoples are outraged that plants that they developed are being 'hijacked' by companies. Groups as diverse as religious leaders, parliamentarians and environment NGOs are intensifying their campaign against corporate patenting of living things.

• Fortune Magazine Legal Pad: Ending software patents: Has the time come? - Roger Parloff provides an overview of current issues surrounding the patentability of software implementations. (February 28, 2008)