Some Schools Welcoming Patent Firm, Others Wary 55
theodp writes "Intellectual Ventures (IV) will be setting up shop at the top of a Four Seasons this week as Headline Sponsor of the Ready to Commercialize 2008 conference hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. It's the patent firm's 100th university deal, though some, such as Professor Michael Heller at Columbia University, warn against such deals. '... their individual profit comes at the cost of the public ability to innovate. The university's larger mission is to serve the public interest, and some of these deals work against that public interest.' It's a follow-up to the conference IV sponsored last summer for technology transfer professionals entrusted with commercializing their universities' intellectual property, and should help IV, a friend of Microsoft, snag even more exclusive deals (PDF)."
Re:Don't fight the law, ignore it. (Score:4, Informative)
With laws as outrageously stupid as some of the current patent laws, it's frankly time to start ignoring them.
That's what RIM thought [theregister.co.uk]
Re:Fucking scum assholes (Score:1, Informative)
Especially Bill G.
Here's where you should go to post like that. [digg.com]
Re:Its a trap (Score:3, Informative)
what more needs to be said?
The problem is that as taxpayers, we are paying for the trap, the cheese, and the rat that gets caught. And this needs to be said often, to the non-technical people that vote and make policy.