Big patent law reform on the way?
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| It’s the case of In re Bilski, due to be heard soon by a full panel of the
| Federal Circuit.
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| Crouch writes that the court is asking some basic questions, including
| whether the State Street decision, which allowed business methods patents,
| should be overturned. That case is also used to justify software patents.
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| If patents on business methods and software are invalidated as a class, the
| SCO case disappears and U.S. patent law starts to look a lot more like
| European law, in which copyright is software’s primary protection.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2035
It has become ridiculous.
How hard is it to violate the GPL?
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| In a world where smaller-and-smaller code fragments are patented, licensed or
| copyrighted, it ’s getting harder-and-harder to write anything which doesn’t
| infringe on someone’s rights, somewhere.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2031
'Innovation' = when nobody can write code. It's a luxury of the wealthy few.
Feudal systems again...
Related:
When Patents Threaten Science
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| Patents should not be used to protect laws of nature, products of
| nature, or mathematical formulas.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/314/5804/1395
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