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| Newer page: | version 16 | Last edited on Saturday, May 28, 2005 2:28:45 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 14 | Last edited on Monday, April 4, 2005 9:05:52 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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A [Patent] that covers a software "invention".
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__Patents on software are just as wrong as expanding the patent system to literature.__ With patents on story elements, no movie could be published without having to firstly check whether there is any general idea in the storyline that someone patented during the last 20 years. Here's an example: At first sight, Dirty Dancing and Titanic are two very distinct movies. However, if there were patents on story elements, then the makers of Dirty Dancing could have sued the studio of Titanic. Both movies have a scene in which a poor boy takes a rich girl from a party of her social peers to a dancing party of his group, and she enjoys it. Dirty Dancing came out only nine years before Titanic, so any patent would still have been in force. No one knows whether James Cameron had that Dirty Dancing scene in mind as he wrote the Titanic script. Maybe Cameron never saw Dirty Dancing but the patent (if it existed) could be used against him anyway.
<br> --from "[Thoughts Are Free! | http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/basics/thoughts.html]"
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+Another quote from noone other than BillGates:''''
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+ If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.
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+He goes on:''''
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+ The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.
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+Take that as you may.
SoftwarePatent~s are granted in the US and the EU. They're not actually currently legal in the EU, but the European council is pushing for unlimited patentability of software. The draft of the legislation has been ratified, but has not been formally accepted.
* [FFII: Software Patents in Europe | http://swpat.ffii.org/]
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* BusinessMethodPatent
* IntellectualProperty
* LinuxWiki:Patent
* OpenDirectory's [Patents category | http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Intellectual_Property/Patents/]
-* Scraped [RSS] feeds for [USPTO patents and patent applications by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo | http://varchars.com/rss/]
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