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[News] Another Reason Why Software Patents Are Useless

  • Subject: [News] Another Reason Why Software Patents Are Useless
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:47:30 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Software Patents Violate The Patent Bargain, Since There Is No Disclosure To Trade-Off

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| It's always fun talking to big time patent 
| system supporters, because it's easy to 
| predict their arguments. After you point out 
| all of the evidence that has shown absolutely 
| no proof that patents increase innovation, the 
| supporters always shift from "patents are 
| necessary for innovation" to "patents are 
| really about disclosure." The argument here is 
| that part of the "bargain" for getting a 
| government granted monopoly over your 
| invention is that you have to describe the 
| invention, so that those who are skilled in 
| the art can replicate it from your 
| description. Of course, as patent attorneys 
| and software engineers admit, that's a myth. 
| Patents are written these days to be 
| incredibly broad, and really only 
| understandable to other patent attorneys, 
| rather than other engineers .
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100310/0437118502.shtml


Recent:

City Caller ID is already patented by another company

,----[ Quote ]
| I don't have the time or money to license
| this technology and use it from Cequint.
`----

http://www.threadabort.com/archive/2010/02/20/city-caller-id-has-been-sued-by-cequint.aspx?mp=1


City Caller ID - My First Android App

http://www.threadabort.com/archive/2009/12/14/city-caller-id-my-first-android-app.aspx


Guy Who Makes Simple Caller ID App For Android Forced To Shut Down Due To Patent Threat

,----[ Quote ]
| Seriously, can any patent supporter explain
| with a straight face how patents like this
| promote progress? What kind of incentive does
| a patent create in this case? Can you
| honestly claim that this kind of monopoly was
| necessary to "invent" a way to match a phone
| number to a city?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100224/0244468285.shtml


IMAX Threatens Open Source 3D Engine With Bizarre Reasoning

,----[ Quote ]
| Proffer alerts us to the bizarre story of how
| IMAX (last seen suing competitors and
| misleading people about what an IMAX film
| really is) is now threatening the folks behind
| the Sandy3D open source 3D flash engine.
| Apparently, IMAX has some sort of 3D drawing
| system called SANDDE. So, maybe, if you
| squint, you could see how IMAX might be
| complaining about a trademark issue. But the
| letter from IMAX is quite odd. It doesn't
| mention trademark at all. Instead, it mentions
| a French patent.
|
| [...]
|
| In the end, it looks like some IMAX lawyers
| decided to just threaten these open source
| developers, hoping that by spewing some
| totally unrelated info about a patent, it
| might scare the developers into changing the
| name on a product, even though the patent has
| nothing at all to do with the issue, and the
| company has no registered trademark on the
| name in question.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100315/0319588562.shtml
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