A not-so-overly-alarmist reminder of how monopolies are taking over society using self-serving laws and establishments, including the patent office

The so-called reform, which was proposed as an Easy Fix™ to be applied to the USPTO, has always been rather impotent. It kept the problems in tact where intellectual monopolies could benefit and perhaps harmed some of the smaller players, including the patent trolls

Patent news and other related topics from the news.

Glyn Moody: «Here's a brilliant, must-read feature exposing some of the hidden agendas of the Green Revolution and the dark side of the Gates Foundation's work in Africa.In particular, it makes explicit the symmetry of Microsoft and Monsanto in their use of intellectual monopolies to m

The Obama rule against software patents; studies suggest intellectual monopolies are harmful

Novell gets some new intellectual monopolies and Microsoft gets sued over patent infringement

The Community patent keeps marching, Jean-Philippe Courtois lobbies for the Lisbon Treaty, and Microsoft brings intellectual monopolies to The League of Arab States

A Chinese Internet company has sued Microsoft for patent infringement over its use of RSS* in Windows Vista.

How companies such as IBM and Microsoft take away algorithms and then "donate" or "sell them back" to us