National Intellectual Property Researchers Association

 

Hiding the Truth with the
Coalition for Patent Fairness

(making Research in Motion feel at home in the U.S., and with Congress)


On October 5, 2007, when you clicked on Ontario in the map at the Coalition for Patent Fairness' member page, you would see:

"Research in Motion
Mississauga, Ontario
Research in Motion
Ottawa, Ontario
Research in Motion
Waterloo, Ontario"

On October 13, 2007, when you clicked on Ontario, you saw this:

CPF - Ontario

But by October 20, 2007, you saw only the good ole U.S.of A (below), with Ontario being wiped off the map of public perception (though through Research in Motion still being perhaps an invisible driving foreign force in the Coalition for Patent Fairness).

CPF with invisible Ontario


However, if you click on Texas in the Coalition's member page map, you can still see the vestiges of what used to be, though perhaps not for long.  Below is our copy of the Texas entries from the CPF map from October 13, 2007 which still included Ontario:

CPF-Texas

A listing of Coalition for Patent Fairness Members, compiled in October 2007 from map on the "Our Members" page, is:

Adobe; Agilent; Apple; Applied Materials; Aruba Wireless Networks, Inc.; Atheros Communications; Autodesk; Avaya; Avid; Broadcom Corporation; Business Software Alliance; CA, Inc.; Cadence Design Systems; Charter Communications, Inc.; Chevron Corporation; Ciena Corporation; Cisco Systems; Computer and Communications Industry Association; Computing Technology Industry Association; Comcast; Copernio Holding Company; Countrywide Financial Corporation; Dell; eBay; EMC Corporation; Electrolux North America; Financial Services Roundtable; Hewlett-Packard; Illinois IT Association; Information Technology Association of America; Information Technology Industry Council; Intel; Intuit; Juniper Networks; Lenovo; Lexmark International; MasterCard Worldwide; McAfee, Inc.; Micron Technology; Microsoft; Napersoft; National Semiconductor Corporation; NCR Corporation; Network Appliance, Inc.; OpenAir, Inc.; Oracle; Palm, Inc.; RealPage, Inc.; Red Hat; Research in Motion; Salesforce.com; SAP; Seagate Technology; Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association; ShowingTime; Sonnet Technologies; Software & Information Industry Association; SPSS Inc.; St. Jude Medical; Sternhill Partners; Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Sybase, Inc.; Symantec; TechNet; Time Warner; UGS Corp.; Visa U.S.A., Inc.; Western Digital; Xilinx, Inc.


NOTE: the map images on this page belong to the Coalition for Patent Fairness, and are reproduced herein for "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research" as well as for political discourse, pursuant to 17 USC 107.


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