Tech Firms and Regulators Meet At UN About Patents

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @11:36AM from the talk-talk-talk dept.

another random user writes "Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung and others tech firms met with regulators and patent officials in Geneva to discuss changes to intellectual property laws. The event follows a flurry of lawsuits involving smartphone makers. It is set to focus on how to ensure license rights to critical technologies are offered on 'reasonable' terms. Companies are split over whether they should be allowed to ban rivals' devices if they do not agree a fee. The talks have been organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency responsible for ensuring phone-makers agree standards so that their devices can interact with each other."

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Re:How many small businesses were invited? by shentino · 2012-10-10 19:47 · Score: 4, Interesting

The root problem isn't patents.
It never was, that is a mere symptom of the same corruption of big business ass-raping the government and forcing it to give out goodies to their lobbyists.
Get business out of government and everything else will take care of itself. Keep business in government and no solution is going to work anyway.