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Program brings Web's collective wisdom to patent process
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| Some of the biggest players in the technology industry complain that the U.S.
| patent system is broken -- putting too many patents of dubious merit in the
| hands of people who can use them to drag companies and other inventors to
| court.
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| And Blaise Mouttet, a small inventor in Alexandria, Virginia, thinks he knows
| why. The problem, he said, is that "there are too many lawyers and not enough
| inventors involved with the patent system."
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| So Mouttet is taking part in an experimental program launched in June 2007
| with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and backed by the technology
| industry that is intended to give the public -- including inventors -- more
| of a voice in the system.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/15/crowdsourcing.patents.ap/index.html
Might as well guess Slashdot owes A$$ociated Press some money for quoting its
story from CNN...
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/09/16/0157220.shtml
http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2008/09/16/ap/hitech/d936n3l80.txt
Recent:
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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| 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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| 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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