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[News] Software Developers Reject Software Patents; USPTO is Broken

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What’s Wrong with Software Patents?

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| Surveys regularly find that computer programmers are opposed to patents on 
| software by a wide margin. In what other field is the class of inventors so 
| opposed to patents?  
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http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/06/whats-wrong-wit.html

Business bookshelf: Patent system hinders innovation

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| The U.S. patent system is not working. It stands accused on all sides of 
| stifling innovation instead of nurturing it. Some critics say the system is 
| fundamentally wrecked, others that it can be fixed.  
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| In this new book, "Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put 
| Innovation at Risk," economist James Bessen and law academic Michael Meurer 
| show that the system no longer provides predictable property rights. They go 
| on to offer solutions based on empirical evidence from history, law and 
| economics.    
| 
| [...]
| 
| While making these criticisms, however, the authors ignore that the fault may 
| lie with the appointment of judges who are unfamiliar with patents to hear 
| patent trials.  
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-books30-2008jun30,0,7882576.story


Related:

[KDE developer:] stupid patents

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| Many of Apple's concepts such as icons stacks, parabolic zooming in panels 
| and (most recently) widgets on media centers that they seem to feel are 
| patentable are either unoriginal or just plain trivial.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| Future society will look back upon us and cluck their tongue at how stupid we 
| were for having let the patent system encroach upon things such as software 
| on the one hand and become so baroque a system as to be generally lacking 
| usefulness on the other.   
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/02/stupid-patents.html
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