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Patent Crisis and The Age of Open Source Ideas
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| Here's a simple scenario. A startup produces an innovative idea and works
| with a patent lawyer to file a patent. This takes a considerable amount of
| time (a few months at least) and a substantial amount of money ($25K+). But
| the startup does it anyway and after the patent is filed, people feel
| comforted that their idea is safe.
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| Right? Of course not! Not even close. Any patent filed today will take 4-6
| years to approve. In the current era where a week is a long time and a year
| is an eternity, the time to process a patent is unbearably long. Because of
| this gap, filing a patent appears useless. While you can threaten based on a
| pending patent, people are unlikely to take it seriously.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/patent_crisis_and_the_age_of_open_source_ideas.php
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| Staff at the European Patent Office went on strike accusing the organization
| of corruption: specifically, stretching the standards for patents in order to
| make more money.
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| One of the ways that the EPO has done this is by issuing software patents in
| defiance of the treaty that set it up.
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http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-jul-oct.html#24%20September%202008%20%28Patent%20Office%20on%20Strike%29
"Consultants: These guys are your best bets as moderators. Get a well-known
consultant on your side early, but don’t let him publish anything blatantly
pro-Microsoft. Then, get him to propose himself to the conference organizers
as a moderator, whenever a panel opportunity comes up. Since he’s well-known,
but apparently independent, he’ll be accepted - one less thing for the
constantly-overworked conference organizer to worry about, right?"
-- Microsoft
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf
Recent:
Will the patent system trigger financial collapse in 2008?
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| This was the title of an article written one year ago. Here is the end, which
| is happening nowadays: "What does this mean for the patent system? David
| Martin points out that three separate bubbles are about to pop at the same
| time: consumer debt, mortgage debt, and patent debt. Each of these bubbles
| will cause enormous damage to those institutions who were over-committed, and
| most certainly to those who helped create the bubble. The patent offices will
| not go unrewarded for helping to create another Great Depression, by printing
| trillions of Euro worth of funny money."
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-93114/will-the-patent-system-trigger-financial-collapse-in-2008
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