Public Interest Groups Face Uphill Battle at WIPO Meeting

Patrick Norager writes "As WIPO creates new rights for broadcasters, documents critical of these rights created by EFF and IP Justice were stolen and recovered in a bathroom trashcan." EFF has a general statement on the meeting with links for more information.

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Prior Art or Infringment

[IBitOBear]

char * X;
char * Y; ...
if (X != Y) { ...
}

The above if statement contains "A system, method and computer-readable medium support the use of a single operator that allows a comparison of two variables to determine if the two variables point to the same location in memory." (The quote is the entire abstract of the patent application.)

I'm sorry, but God needs to destroy the USPTO from space at this point.