Banning software patents....
I have been fighting against software patents for years. It's upsetting to see things like this happening:
http://www.widgetpress.com/defense
And this:
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/1152252/UK-Developers-Quit-US-App-Store-Over-Patent-Fears
Doesn't the US realize that we are killing our software industry by doing this? You can't even say that big business believes in software patents anymore since large companies in the US are now also turning against them.
The EU and the UK both rejected software patents for a very good reason. Because they realized that abstract ideas should not be patentable. Software is fundamentally reducible to mathematical algorithms. It is incremental in it's nature and, many times, there is only one way to do things. For all of these reasons and many more.
Most companies today, especially small ones, are forced to patent certain things they do because they need to maintain a patent portfolio. They do this to defend themselves. So, like nuclear weapons, patents proliferate in a sort of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) approach.
As an incentive to reform I would like to see the USPTO take a dose of what it is creating. The USPTO should be required to pay a fine for every patent which is found invalid with the money going towards a fund to pay restitution to those who've lost money due to the USPTO's negligence. In addition, it should be an option to sue the USPTO for issuance of a bad patent by either the party holding the patent or the party which was sued due to the issuance of the patent or both.
Ultimately, it is the USPTO putting these weapons of mass destruction in everyone's hands. They should be forced to reap what they've sown.
http://www.widgetpress.com/defense
And this:
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/1152252/UK-Developers-Quit-US-App-Store-Over-Patent-Fears
Doesn't the US realize that we are killing our software industry by doing this? You can't even say that big business believes in software patents anymore since large companies in the US are now also turning against them.
The EU and the UK both rejected software patents for a very good reason. Because they realized that abstract ideas should not be patentable. Software is fundamentally reducible to mathematical algorithms. It is incremental in it's nature and, many times, there is only one way to do things. For all of these reasons and many more.
Most companies today, especially small ones, are forced to patent certain things they do because they need to maintain a patent portfolio. They do this to defend themselves. So, like nuclear weapons, patents proliferate in a sort of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) approach.
As an incentive to reform I would like to see the USPTO take a dose of what it is creating. The USPTO should be required to pay a fine for every patent which is found invalid with the money going towards a fund to pay restitution to those who've lost money due to the USPTO's negligence. In addition, it should be an option to sue the USPTO for issuance of a bad patent by either the party holding the patent or the party which was sued due to the issuance of the patent or both.
Ultimately, it is the USPTO putting these weapons of mass destruction in everyone's hands. They should be forced to reap what they've sown.
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They look at Microsoft, Google, IBM, Apple, Oracle and see companies that (apprently) thrive on software patents, and lobby for software patents. Only when those large bodies (such as Wall Street) lobby against software patents, then will the US lawmakers start to move away from the current status.
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