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
IAM on In re Bilski: Tightening The Standards For Software Patents
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| Joff Wild of IAM Magazine predicts that the Federal Circuit’s en banc
| rehearing of the In re Bilsk case signals a move to restrict the
| patentability of software and business methods.
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http://www.waltmire.com/blog/archives/2008/02/26/iam-on-in-re-bilski-tightening-the-standards-for-software-patents/
"If it [the timing of the donation] had anything to do with the antitrust case,
we would have told someone."
--Ms. Stonifer, director William H. Gates Foundation
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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