"The fight against climate change will inherit the patent thicket in the software sector. To win the fight against climate change, fast diffusion of green technology is needed. Policy makers know that, patent trolls know that. We will see the same problems that plague the software field, like trivial patents, amassing of patents, frivolous lawsuits, hampering of follow up innovation and high transaction costs. Especially since many modern products, like hybrid cars, contain software."
Full: <http://action.ffii.org/acta/Analysis>
On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Ira Glazer wrote:
> among the activists working against the nefariousness of ACTA is Jamie
> Love's group, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
>
> you might be interested in their listservs which follow the negotiations
> pretty closely (especially access to knowledge) :
>
> http://lists.keionline.org/pipermail/ip-health_lists.keionline.org/
> (Intellectual
> Property and Health Care)
>
> http://lists.keionline.org/pipermail/a2k_lists.keionline.org/
> (Access
> to Knowledge)