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Are software patents actually bottlenecks ?
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| Each industry has its own standards and statistics. The nature of software
| industry is poles apart from any other industry and for it patents are
| proving gradually harmful. The idea of software patent is significant as far
| as it promotes the originality and innovation but contrasts to it, software
| patents are road blockers for innovation. They harm the creativity and an
| aspiration to create something naive.
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| The software products for all applications undergoes the same life cycle. In
| such cases maintaining originality with concept is a bottleneck. It harms the
| innovation and mere thought of suing due to patent infringement is yet
| another big obstacle. But start ups are never sued for patent infringements
| as a matter of fact. If they come up with something better that can harm the
| existing company on the same grounds, then they can be pulled to the lawsuits
| battle zone. For instance the companies like Microsoft has lot of patents
| signed in their name, but no cases have been heard of Microsoft suing the
| other company as of mimicking their software or something else.
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http://www.itvoir.com/portal/boxx/knowledgebase.asp?iid=946&Cat=23
McAfee Ordered To Pay $18 Million In Patent Case
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| McAfee (MFE) this afternoon disclosed in an SEC filing that a federal jury in
| Texas last week found the company violated a patent held by venture-backed
| DeepNines Inc. and ordered McAfee to pay $18 million for past and future
| damages. The company said it intends to appeal the verdict.
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http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2008/07/21/mcafee-ordered-to-pay-18-million-in-patent-case/
Business System Patents
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| That includes a piece of paper with writing on it and nobody will argue that
| writing on a piece of paper makes the paper patentable subject matter. None
| of the additional language adds a darn thing to the claim. All it does is
| ascribe purposes to the "logic" and to the computer readable medium. Where is
| the beef? How much does HP pay its patent attorneys to write this junk?
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http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/07/business-system.html#comments
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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| 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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