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Some Schools Welcoming Patent Firm, Others Wary
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)."
With laws as outrageously stupid as some of the current patent laws, it's frankly time to start ignoring them.
There's a much easier way. We should all just stop going to college. That's the free market approach, right?
Extreme solutions to complicated problems always work out, just like you and I have suggested.
what more needs to be said?
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