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Patent Solipsism
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| I’ve been thinking a fair amount about software patents the last couple of
| weeks. Two weeks ago I attended a Brookings Institution conference that
| focused pretty heavily on the patent system. Since then, I’ve interviewed
| several sharp patent scholars in preparation for an article I’m working on.
| In those conversations, I noticed the same cultural gulf I blogged about on
| Techdirt last week. You might say that on the subject of software patents,
| lawyers are from Mars and programmers are from Venus.
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| [...]
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| So when a programmer thinks about software patents, he’s interested in
| improving the software industry. Given how screwed up software patents are,
| programmers often think the best solution would be not to have them at all.
| In contrast, when a patent lawyers thinks about software patents, he’s
| interested in fixing the patent system. Abolishing software patents looks
| like a horrible hack, because the flaws in the patent system that caused
| software patents to be so dysfunctional are probably plaguing other areas of
| patent law
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http://techliberation.com/2009/01/26/patent-solipsism/
Does Monopoly Create Wealth?
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| Let’s see how this works. Property rights are protected. Trade is free.
| People made useful stuff. People bought stuff and used it. They imitated and
| emulated each other and improved things step by step through investment,
| profit, and re-investment. That's all. All development since this great age
| of innovation that preceding software IP has built on this foundation of
| open-source material. Bill Gates: "If people had understood how patents would
| be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out
| patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today."
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker124.html
Recent:
‘Software patenting will harm industry, consumer’
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| Living up to its status as the country’s Information Technology (IT) capital,
| Bangalore played host to a different kind of “software lobby” here on
| Saturday.
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| Unlike most lobbies, this one had no vested interests and no hard-line
| agenda. In a bid to raise awareness about software patenting and generate a
| debate among stakeholders, the Free Software community from across the
| country participated in a national-level meeting against software patents.
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http://www.hindu.com/2008/10/05/stories/2008100559810400.htm
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