EPO spies success as patent numbers fall
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| While computing remains one of the most active fields, the proportion of
| computer patent filings fell by 0.8 per cent last year. Meanwhile, the
| related field of information storage, which has seen a flood of applications
| in recent years, saw its share of total filings drop by a staggering 18 per
| cent last year.
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http://bulletin.sciencebusiness.net/ebulletins/showissue.php3?page=/548/2819/10311
Ex Parte Bilski: On the Briefs
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| Dell & Microsoft: A patentable invention must operate on “something
| physical.” To be patentable, software should be tied to a computer and cause
| some physical transformation (such as movement of electrons). And, following
| Comiskey, a patent should not be granted under 103 if the inventor merely
| combined well known computer hardware with inventive but otherwise
| unpatentable software.
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http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/04/ex-parte-bilski.html
EDS' Next Big Thing Blog: Read and Respond to What the EDS Fellows Say About
Technology
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| If you are reading this blog, you are probably interested in innovation and
| information technology. If so, you've probably crossed paths with software
| and business method patents. If still true, then you've probably discovered
| that the US patent office's backlog for our class of patents is 4-5 years.
| Well, with the fast pace of technology, it can be argued that most IT and
| business inventions have a useful life of about 4-5 years. So, does it even
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| make any sense to file a patent?
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http://www.eds.com/sites/cs/blogs/eds_next_big_thing_blog/archive/2008/04/08/patents-to-accelerate-or-not-to-accelerate_3F00_.aspx
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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