[LINK] The lights are on but nobody's at home in the city without a clue

[Brendan Scott]

> http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/sydney-the-city-without-a-clue/2007/06/12/1181414305829.html
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> This is based on, among other things, the number of universities in
> each city, the spread of broadband access, the amount of patents
> applied for, and the number of daily newspapers for every million
> people.


I see, so despite how vibrant it is, if it doesn't have broadband or a lax patent system it gets bad marks?

Are they going to mark the US down retrospectively now that their Supreme Court has given a ruling likely to invalidate a large proportion of patents filed there over the past decade?