India calls for reform of the UN

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IBM calls for patent reform

IBM calls for patent reform 04/10/2005 09:52 PM
ZDNet Australia Apr 11 2005 12:54AM GMT

More Calls For Patent Reform

More Calls For Patent Reform 04/28/2004 01:12 PM
Yet another study has come out pointing out all of the well known problems with the patent system and suggesting it's about time something was done to fix it. They suggest that there need to be more patent examiners, there needs to be a better process for contesting patents, and examiners need to reject more "obvious" patents. Of course, as another article about the patent system makes clear, the government sees the patent office more as a revenue generator rather than as a force for innovation. As such, they're not that interested in either spending more on it or making it harder to receive patents. As far as they're concerned, the more patents granted means more people will apply, and more funds will go into the patent office coffers - which can then be raided to pay off other government bills.

FTC calls for US patent reform

FTC calls for US patent reform 10/30/2003 12:36 PM
More hurdles, less backlog

India PM promises public reform

India PM promises public reform 06/24/2004 09:48 AM
In his first speech to the nation, Manmohan Singh says reforming India's public institutions is his first priority.

Microsoft Calls for Patent Law Reform

Microsoft Calls for Patent Law Reform 03/14/2005 04:42 PM
Critics of the United States patent system have found an unforeseen ally: Microsoft. During his keynote speech at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith proposed a series of reforms to correct flaws in the US patent system

Brown calls for EU economy reform

Brown calls for EU economy reform 06/22/2005 01:59 AM
The UK must use its EU presidency to push for economic reform, the Chancellor says.

Arafat faces new calls for reform

Arafat faces new calls for reform 07/19/2004 06:24 PM
There is growing international pressure for reform of Palestinian security forces as a way to calm Gaza violence.

Oxfam calls for EU subsidy reform

Oxfam calls for EU subsidy reform 03/23/2005 07:49 AM
The EU farm subsidy system needs reform because it is "skewed in favour of rich landowners", Oxfam says.

More Calls To Reform The Patent System

More Calls To Reform The Patent System 12/11/2003 02:30 PM
Earlier today we posted an article about how copyr ight law was harming, not helping, innovation. To go with that, how about an article from the Washington Post about how the patent system is harming, not helping, innovation. While the first article looked at DMCA smack-down suits, this one looks at all of the little patent shops that buy up ridiculous patents, don't actually build anything, wait for someone else (completely independently) to build something similar, and then sue them. It also looks at big companies who patent thousands of ideas every year, and then threaten any small company that might compete with them to "license our patents or else." The article mentions that many are hopeful that the resigna tion of the current USPTO directer will encourage real reform (despite all the praise he's receiving for being a "reformer"). From the quotes from the incoming director, though, I wouldn't hold my breath. In response to an FTC report that loudly questions the current patent system, the new USPTO director basically says that his hands are tied by treaty agreements the US has. He is happy, however, that the FTC suggests the patent office gets more money. Big surprise there. The money will go to more patent examiners, which just means that bad patents will get approved that much faster. What's needed is a real rethinking of the process. If the point of patents is to encourage innovation, we need to see if that's really happening or (if as appears in many cases) it's really just legalized extortion.

Red Hat chief calls for idealism,
reform, sharing

Red Hat chief calls for idealism,
reform, sharing 08/03/2004 04:10 PM
What's wrong with the United States? It's too much like the New York Yankees, says CEO Matthew Szulik.

Religious Action Center - Reform Jewish
Movement Calls on Senator Frist to
Repudiate Claim That Judicial Nominees
are Victims of a "Filibuster Against
Faith"

Religious Action Center - Reform Jewish
Movement Calls on Senator Frist to
Repudiate Claim That Judicial Nominees
are Victims of a "Filibuster Against
Faith" 04/18/2005 12:42 AM
Rabbi David Saperstein .. Statement:

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Republicans outsourcing fund-raising
calls to India

Republicans outsourcing fund-raising
calls to India 09/03/2004 12:45 AM

I reported back in September 2003 that an Indian newspaper reported a local company receiving an outsourcing contract from the Republicans for fund-raising calls. The Republicans denied this at the time. Dvorak has an update.

The Telegraph - Calcutta

Indian voices in Bush pitch - Geography error blows lid off campaign outsourcing

The Texas outfit may have actually got away with its outsourcing exercise if it had not been for the poor training given to Indian telemarketers who handled the job. Sources here said the India-based operation was exposed when one American who received a fund-raising phone call on behalf of the Republican Victory Committee wanted to know where the call was coming from.

“The Washington DC of Virginia,” the caller answered. Washington, the US capital, is actually in DC, short for District of Columbia, and Virginia is its neighbouring state

I personally have nothing against outsourcing to India, but it probably looks bad for the RNC.

Comment - TrackBack

India PM in Pakistan Calls for Bold
Moves to Peace

India PM in Pakistan Calls for Bold
Moves to Peace 01/04/2004 05:03 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 4 2004 3:48AM ET

Ericsson Launched the first 3G call in
India at the 13th Convergence India-2005

Ericsson Launched the first 3G call in
India at the 13th Convergence India-2005 03/29/2005 05:26 PM
ZDNet India Mar 29 2005 9:52PM GMT

Rural India voters dismiss "Shining
India"

Rural India voters dismiss "Shining
India" 05/14/2004 04:37 PM

Are Speakerphone Mobile Calls Less
Annoying Than Regular Calls?

Are Speakerphone Mobile Calls Less
Annoying Than Regular Calls? 04/21/2004 03:53 PM
Last week we noted a new study saying that people get annoyed with others talking on mobile phones because they only hear one half of the conversation. At the time, I wrote that this made sense as periods of silence followed by talking are a lot more jarring to the passive listener. However, this BBC report claims that the reason for the annoyance is that it shows that we're more curious about what the other party is saying. I'm not sure I buy that. It seems much more likely that it's the variability in noise, from silent to noisy rather than any form of curiosity. When the conversation is at a constant hum (even when loud), it's much easier to tune it out. Still, the findings do go against the opinion many people have expressed that things like "push-to-talk" where the phone usually acts as a speaker phone would be more annoying since we get to hear both sides of the conversation. In fact, the researchers behind the study are even suggesting that mobile phone makers may want to explore adding speaker phones to more phones to make them less annoying. Of course, the study only set up two conditions: a conversation on a mobile phone and a face-to-face conversation. They didn't test the speaker phone situation to see how annoying that was. It's possible that the annoyance factor comes from the inability to make use of body language to express concepts as well, leading to a different tone of voice.

INDIA: India plans US model cyber law

INDIA: India plans US model cyber law 12/24/2004 01:07 PM
Asia Media Dec 22 2004 10:47PM GMT

vichaar.org - Thought-provoking insights
on India - - A list of relief efforts in
India for tidal wave relief

vichaar.org - Thought-provoking insights
on India - - A list of relief efforts in
India for tidal wave relief 12/28/2004 01:18 PM
Vichaar .. links

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BPL Mobile, MSN India and Mobile 365
Bring Mobility to Subscribers in India

BPL Mobile, MSN India and Mobile 365
Bring Mobility to Subscribers in India 12/24/2004 12:47 PM
MSN India, a leading online destination featuring more than 360 million users worldwide, and Mobile 365 (newly merged Mobileway-InphoMatch) today further extend their relationship in Asia by forging a strategic mobile alliance with BPL Mobile, India’s best and most trusted mobile phone service provider. Starting today, over 2.4 million BPL Mobile subscribers across Mumbai, Maharashtra, Goa, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry will be able to access their Hotmail e-mails and chat with their MSN buddies on SMS anywhere, anytime. [PRWEB Dec 23, 2004]

reform-0.1

reform-0.1 09/13/2004 04:55 PM

How to reform the FCC

How to reform the FCC 06/21/2004 07:26 AM
Economist Randolph May says the time is ripe to move the FCC to the executive branch, where there will be more political accountability for its actions.

Patent Reform?

Patent Reform? 06/05/2005 11:19 PM

I was reading Business Week and they had a little commercial section with ads from law firms. A couple of them were intellectual-property specialists and I snarled internally; whatever you think about patent law, as a longtime businessman I’m pretty convinced that the IP law profession, while it contains many good and intelligent people, is collectively a giant leech sucking money and time out of the community of innovators. Having said that, two of the lawyers’ blurbs jumped out at me; both about proposed US legislation which would institute a new process, within the PTO as opposed to the courts, for a quick challenge to the validity of a patent. This is important, because today, defending yourself against patent-infringement litigation is insanely expensive, $1M and up, way up. This is why most companies, in particular small companies, roll over and settle quickly when they get hit with this kind of lawsuit, no matter how dopey the patent is. Here are the two reports: Defending Against Patent Greenmail (which begins Patent “trolls” are currently the subject of much discussion...; most IP specialists don’t like to admit that patent trolls exist, but they do) and New USPTO Post-Grant Patent Opposition Legislation on Horizon. I think the high-tech business community ought to get behind this legislation, big-time. Everyone except the patent trolls.

X.org and XFree86 Reform

X.org and XFree86 Reform 01/23/2004 02:20 PM

The Register wants reform

The Register wants reform 06/24/2005 07:26 PM
According to Cathy Kirkman of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, the Register of Coyprights has decided to propose abolishing the compulsory right granted by section 115 of the Copyright Act. This is the provision that gives recording artists the right to record "covers," so long as they pay a specified fee. Remember this quote from a 1967 House Judiciary Report, considering a modification to the law as it existed then:

[T]he record producers argued vigorously that the compulsory license system must be retained. They asserted that the record industry is a half-billion-dollar business of great economic importance in the United States and throughout the world; records today are the principal means of disseminating music, and this creates special problems, since performers need unhampered access to musical material on nondiscriminatory terms. Historically, the record producers pointed out, there were no recording rights before 1909 and the 1909 statute adopted the compulsory license as a deliberate anti-monopoly condition on the grant of these rights. They argue that the result has been an outpouring of recorded music, with the public being given lower prices, improved quality, and a greater choice.

Copyright Law Revision, Committee on the Judiciary, 90th Cong. 1st, Sess., Rep. No. 83 66 (March 8, 1967). Apparently the Registrer believes performers no longer "need unhampered access to musical material on nondiscriminatory terms." What progress.

This Is Reform? (washingtonpost.com)

This Is Reform? (washingtonpost.com) 08/14/2004 02:53 PM

Patent Reform

Patent Reform 04/11/2005 08:52 AM
Steve Lohr: I.B.M. Hopes to Profit by Making Patents Available Free

UN must reform or die, says Rice

UN must reform or die, says Rice 04/16/2005 02:42 AM
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the United Nations must reform to survive as a "vital force".

Rockefeller Reform

Rockefeller Reform 05/26/2004 07:51 PM
AlterNet-28 minutes ago ... them on the phone. To learn more, she scanned The New York Times and typed "Rockefeller drug laws" into Google. Then she sent letters ...

NI water reform in pipeline

NI water reform in pipeline 08/10/2004 12:37 PM
A new company, likely to be funded by water charges, is to take over the duties of the water service in NI.

NHS reform 'to cut waiting times'

NHS reform 'to cut waiting times' 06/27/2004 07:50 AM
Radical moves are being considered to cut the number of people waiting for NHS treatment, it emerges.

Protest due over probation reform

Protest due over probation reform 05/11/2004 12:52 AM
More than a 1,000 probation staff are due to protest against a shake-up of the system of supervising offenders.

Populism+reform= PC mantra

Populism+reform= PC mantra 07/09/2004 03:12 AM
Times of India Jul 9 2004 7:09AM GMT

Concern for 14-19 learning reform

Concern for 14-19 learning reform 09/27/2004 07:07 AM
A head teachers' leader is alarmed by a suggestion that reform of 14-19 learning in England might be toned down.

Op-Ed Columnist: Running on Reform

Op-Ed Columnist: Running on Reform 01/04/2004 06:13 AM
GOP is going to have to do .. David Brooks .. Link:

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A New Hope for Patent Reform

A New Hope for Patent Reform 09/20/2004 07:05 PM
Electronic Frontier Foundations Sep 20 2004 11:35PM GMT

Welfare Reform and Education

Welfare Reform and Education 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
Robert's Story; the Problem of Poverty in America Robert is in the third grade. He likes school, and he's pretty good at it. He started reading chapter books this year, and he likes that. He wishes he could go to school today, but he can't. He lives with his mom in their 1985 Mazda GLC. They get in trouble if they stay in one place for more than a few nights, so he can't take the school bus. This morning Robert's mom can't take him to school. She's too busy. This happens to Robert a lot. It makes him really sad. He remembers when he was in first grade he and his mom lived in an apartment. It wasn't a nice apartment, it kinda smelled funny, the carpet was a weird orange color, and the people who lived downstairs scared him. He didn't like it there, but now he just wishes they could go back. He doesn't understand why he and his mom have to be poor. One time he asked his mom, and she started crying. He doesn't ask her questions like that anymore. This is not an uncommon story. In 2003 there were 35.9 million people living below the poverty line in the United States of America, 1.3 million more than in 2002. In addition, there were millions living within the penumbra that surrounds 'official poverty', with incomes that fell above the poverty line but bellow the threshold for a decent standard of living.

Will copyright reform chill use of Web?

Will copyright reform chill use of Web? 06/01/2004 06:07 AM
CanadaIT.com Jun 1 2004 9:35AM GMT

Reform likely on whaling process

Reform likely on whaling process 06/24/2005 07:06 PM
Support is now growing for a root and branch revision of the International Whaling Commission and the treaty which it administers.

No need for sweeping CRTC reform

No need for sweeping CRTC reform 06/18/2004 05:31 PM
National Post Jun 18 2004 9:50PM GMT
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