According to foreign media reports, a senior attorney at Microsoft, said recently that global patent system will help strengthen the protection of corporate intellectual property, and make it more convenient to protect flow faster.
In two articles published this week, Microsoft’s vice president for intellectual property matters Horacio Gutierrez noted that the current international patent protection for the increasing demand for programs, the global need to be related to the protection of the patent process to reach 3.5 million, of which 75 million in the United States.
Guiterrez said, “become more closely linked in today’s society, the global commercial and collaborative creation ongoing, urgent need for patent protection procedures for the use of a worldwide patent protection, through the development of inspection agencies to examine and review by the designated judicial groups to legalize them. an effective global patent system can be solved in many countries between the patent system problems, such as difficult to manage order problems and lengthy period of such issues as referee. ”
Guiterrez think that, such as the “Patent Prosecution Highway” and “IP5″ co-operation projects propaganda, can effectively coordinate the international patent system, but to allow the company to better protect their intellectual property
Also a need for a lot of work. In his view, “the face of these challenges, we need to have long-term goals, to overcome the political obstacles, but will remove some procedural redundancy issues in order to build a global patent system to promote innovation, enhance public awareness, encourage competition, promote the economic development and promote employment. but now is the time. ”
Following the Microsoft word in Texas program on its patent infringement case being reviewed, the company soon called for accelerating the advance of the patent process. In August, the United States Court Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction “against Microsoft in the United States to sell or enter any containing open. XML,. DOCX or DOCM (XML) file feature Word product.” That the statement was through the plaintiff’s attorney released.
i4i Chairman Loudon Owen, said on the interview with CNET News.com, Microsoft’s attitude to this “special” and “The Act highlights the courage to uphold Microsoft patent inventors against their hostile attitude, but also shows the court system deficiencies. ”
Microsoft’s stance on the issue that incurred from the open source groups and other anti-patent advocates opposed. GNU Linux Project founder Richard Stallman has recently called for a boycott of software tools to use Mono, because they would make the user may be a potential Microsoft patent infringement allegations. In the Free Software Foundation published an article, Stallman pointed out that only a fool would ignore Microsoft’s move could lead to threats.
Registered by the Election Commission last month, the British Pirate Party of the existing patent system is also opposed, especially in the healthcare field, also said this in the next election reform. The party leader Andrew Robinson said, “the company’s monopoly on life-saving drugs that people can not afford the time to face death.”
Microsoft on the matter to be from other organizations, cooperation and support. World Intellectual Property Organization plans on September 17 to 18, held in Geneva, the world’s intellectual property rights implementation meetings. His statement, said, “IP system needs with the global trends of knowledge innovation and business operations to keep pace. For everyone in this discussion will provide an excellent opportunity to better develop the diversity of existing national and regional IP infrastructure, in order to better serve the growing international and Reporters Without Borders to provide technical support for innovative activities. “FSF Europe and the United Kingdom Pirate Party also expressed their commitment to this.