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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.
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| [...]
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| 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.
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| [...]
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| 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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