Question of the Week Responses: Video Game Patents
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| The vast majority of the respondents to this Question Of The Week were
| against the concept of software patents , and those that answered "no"
| answered with a great deal more fervor then those that said "yes".
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http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20050609/hong_01.shtml
Another Software Practitioner Against Software Patents
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| "What's all the more infuriating about the current patent situation is that
| many of today's patents go against the original social contract surrounding
| patents. The original goal of the patent system was to get inventors to share
| their innovations for the common good. In return for a limited monopoly, you,
| Mr. Inventor, share your invention so that We, the public, can understand how
| you did it and can then innovate on top of it. Rather than stifling
| innovation, patents were supposed to drive it forward.
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| Unfortunately, many patents, even the ones that are legit, would have been
| created independently anyway. It's obviously a balance, but at least in the
| world I live in, I see patents getting in the way rather than helping me. I
| have never gone and looked at old patents to get new ideas for products. The
| only time an independent patent, one that I'm not working on filing myself,
| comes to my attention, it's because somebody is getting sued for infringing
| it. This tells me that we have lost the original goal that patents were
| supposed to foster.
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http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/2008/03/another_softwar.html
Recent:
Should software be patented? This site would like the practice stopped
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| Should software be patented?
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| # No (54%)
| # Why not copyright it instead? (22%)
| # Only in rare cases when the software is truly innovative (16%)
| # Yes (6%)
| # Abolish the Patent office. Let the free market decide (3%)
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=3339
Related:
My Dumb Software Patents
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| The first patent was provisionally filed in 2000 and has been "in process"
| for the last 8 years. Yes, I said 8 years. Many think that Software Patents
| are stupid. I conceptually agree with this statement. Having spent what seems
| like millions of hours constructing these, baby sitting them, defending them;
| it is really all wasted time and effort, at least in a conceptual sense.
| There is no way for a software engineer or system architect to have any idea
| what exists out there to either copy or avoid (whatever the motivation).
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http://falseprecision.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02/my-dumb-softwar.html
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