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[News] Court Puts in Jeopardy Software Patents in the United States

  • Subject: [News] Court Puts in Jeopardy Software Patents in the United States
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:43:03 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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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. 
| 
| 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.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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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