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Patents/Abuse of AlterLinks Topic Index A Closer Look at Patent Troll Demand Letters: A Dangerous Problem that Must Be Fixed Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 We've been talking a good deal lately about the promising Innovation Act. And with good reason — it looks like the best chance we've had for real patent reform that would actually help those getting crushed by the patent system. The bill is not perfect, though, and has at least one glaring error: it does not address the serious harm that comes from patent troll demand letters. Connexions Digest Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992 Electronic Frontier Foundation Urges Supreme Court to Crack Down on Patent Trolls Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Two Big Cases Could Protect Software Innovators – and Their Customers – From Patent Lawsuits French farmers will have to pay to use their own seeds 'Compulsory voluntary contribution' to seed companies extended to 20 more types of crops, and use of saved seeds for other crops banned Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 French government to begin cracking down on enforcing plant breeders' rights -- farmers will have to pay to use farm-saved seed. From Land to Mouth, Understanding the Food System (Review essay) Resource Type: Article Published: 1990 January's Stupid Patent of the Month: A Method of Updating "Grass" in Video Games Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 U.S. Patent 8,529,350 - January's Stupid Patent of the Month. The patent -- titled "Method and System for Increased Realism in Video Games" - is owned by Utah-based troll White Knuckle LLC. Patent Folly: Another Point of View Resource Type: Article Published: 1995 Stolen Seeds The privatisation of Canada's agricultural biodiversity Resource Type: Book Through patents and other intellectual property regimes, corporate tactics, and government manoeuvering, public goods are being destroyed to make way for private profit. Seed saving and plant breeding practices are being criminalised. This paper provides an overview of the various ways in which this process is happening and discusses some of the consequences. Two Decades of Monsanto's Illegal Actions, Frauds and Crimes in India Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Over the two decades since Monsanto entered India, it has violated laws, deceived Indian farmers by making unscientific and fraudulent claims, extracted super profits through illegal royalty collection by violating India’s Patent and Intellectual Property laws, pushed farmers into debt, and, as a consequence of the debt trap, to suicide. Victory: Photo Hobbyist Prevails Over Junk-Patent Bully Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Patent bully Garfum has abandoned its lawsuit against an online photo hobbyist, just one day after a federal judge set the date for a face-off in court against lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Who Owns Life? Resource Type: Article Published: 1998

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