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Information Today May 2006 George H. Pike	Feature: BlackBerry: Lawsuit and Patent Reform Whether through the courts or before Congress, the BlackBerry experience suggests that some modification of patent law is not only likely, it's necessary.
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IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications Hoping to curtail the orgy of tech-industry litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched an Internet-based peer-review program whereby anyone can help to evaluate a number of software patent applications voluntarily submitted for public evaluation.
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PC Magazine April 6, 2005 John C. Dvorak	Software Patents: Microsoft's Fatal Error Microsoft's has a lot to worry about as the European Union looks unfavorably on its hidden source code and patent practices.
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InternetNews December 10, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	Will Linux Defenders Save Linux from Microsoft? New legal initiative is designed to ensure quality patents and get rid of bad ones.
Chemistry World November 2, 2007 Rebecca Trager	GSK Blocks US Patent Law Changes Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has temporarily blocked the US Patent and Trademark Office from implementing new rules, which it fears could prevent innovators from obtaining adequate patent coverage on their inventions.
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Information Today June 14, 2010 George H. Pike	U.S. Patent Office and Google to Provide Free Bulk Patent and Trademark Data On June 2, 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced an agreement to make more than 10 terabytes of bulk electronic patent and trademark data available through Google.
Bank Technology News January 2004 Karen Krebsbach	Bight Ideas Financial services firms are deluging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with applications, which soared 15-fold between 1995 and 2002. Patent attorney Dale Lazar urges banks to get in line: converting valuable ideas into assets can pay off big time.
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Bio-IT World November 2005 Patrick R. Scanlon	Patent Term Extension Primer U.S. patent law includes provisions for extending the patent term of medical devices and pharmaceuticals in instances when lengthy FDA approval is taking place during the term.
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