[OT] Software patents

[Mike Reinehr]

I don't think the problem is limited just to the digital realm, but that the 
entire system needs an overhaul. It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't cost so 
much to argue against a patent, but it's so expensive that only the "big 
mules" with deep pockets can afford to argue a patent, and, as you point out, 
they control the system. (Meanwhile, I don't think that the people who work 
for the patent office have a clue about the patents they are issuing.)

cmr

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 05:32 pm, James McDonald wrote:
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> I'm starting to think that the patent system as it applied to the realm
> of physical creation no longer applies to the digital realm.
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