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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • April 12, 2005
    An article by Steve Lohr:

    ``Earlier this year, IBM made a broad gesture toward what it called a new era in how it controls intellectual property. It announced in January that it would make 500 patents--mainly for software code that manages electronic commerce, storage, image processing, data handling and Internet communications--freely available to others.

    ``And it pledged that more such moves would follow.

    ``This month, the company said that all of its future patent contributions to the largest standards group for electronic commerce on the Web, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards [OASIS], would be free.

    ``IBM is at the forefront, but companies in industry after industry are also reconsidering their strategies on intellectual property: What do you share? What do you keep proprietary?''

    Full story:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-5661903.html

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