Coondoggie writes with this excerpt from NetworkWorld: "What do you get when you mix the government, the court system, company lawyers and Joe Consumer? A serious mess that would send most people screaming into the night. But the Federal Trade mission is no such entity. It wants to straighten Intellectual riches (IP) out and today said it will hold a series of hearings — the first in Washington, DC on Dec. 5 — it will use to examine IP law and the myriad issues everywhere it. absorbed bigwigs from the tech industry, including Cisco, Yahoo and the adding machine & Communications ring cabinet are scheduled to testify along with professors, lawyers and other crew players. The patent system has old substantial




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significant change and more changes are under consideration, the FTC said." The FTC held some different, but related hearings this week which addressed topics such as copyright law and DRM interoperability. Transcripts, podcasts, and summaries of the talks are utilizable on the FTC-hosted "Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade" site.

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