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Re: [News] Top EPO Figure: Patents Are Moot in Age of Cooperation

  • Subject: Re: [News] Top EPO Figure: Patents Are Moot in Age of Cooperation
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:10:25 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>
> [Dr. Berthold Rutz, EPO:] Shades of "Open innovation" through the EPO Scenarios
> lens
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The powerful paradigm of open and collaborative innovation is no longer 
>| limited to the area of software development but has found proponents in other 
>| technical fields such as consumer goods, pharmaceuticals and automotive. Are 
>| traditional forms of intellectual property protection such as patents, 
>| copyrights or design rights still appropriate in a world where knowledge is 
>| increasingly shared and innovation becomes a collaborative process? What role 
>| will IP rights play in the future and what challenges will they face?      
> `----
>
> http://www.dime-eu.org/files/active/0/Rutz.pdf
>
> The lawyers might disagree with him. They'd rather corrupt the system to secure
> revenue streams. Programmers were polled many times to show that they may want
> copyrights, not patents.
>

As the law stands at present, software is covered by copyright, not
patent... let's hope Dr Rutz's work will consider expanding the use of
copyright, and consider killing off, or at least, cutting back on
the patent process, something which dates back to pre-democractic
societies.

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