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  "[...] Both patents and standards derive their justification from the
   public benefit, yet upholding one deprives the other of its
   function. Standards seek to counteract monopolies, patents establish
   them. Or, as Tomoko Miyamoto, Senior Counsellor of the Patent Law
   Section in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said
   in her presentation: Patent thickets and patent hold-ups arise from
   legitimate exploitation of the exclusive rights intentionally
   conferred by patents. They are a normal and intended consequence of
   the patent system.  [...]"


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   http://fsfeurope.org/standards/ps


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