Climate Change Bill Includes IP Protections

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 15, 2009 @02:04PM from the quick-let's-patent-carbon-sequestration dept.

moogsynth writes "Buried in section 329 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (H.R. 2410), voted in recently, are measures to oppose any global climate change treaty that weakens the IP rights in the green tech of American companies. Peter Zura's patent blog notes that 'the vote comes in anticipation of the upcoming negotiations in December as part of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. ... Previously, there was sufficient chatter in international circles on compulsory licenses, IP seizures, and the outright abolition of patents on low-carbon technology, that Congress felt it necessary to clarify the US's IP position up front.'"

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tell me by Anonymous Coward · 2009-06-15 14:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

global warming...the only people that could help are geeks, but they are too preoccupied crying in their parents basements for some manga stanky they can never get on. Well here's a tip, geeks...anime is a fucking TOON, it don't stank, cuz it ain't real. Licking that musty moldy paneling in your parents' basement where the water damage is the closest you'll get!