Re: [tlug] Patents gone wrong?

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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:05:52 +0900
From: "Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>
Subject: Re: [tlug] Patents gone wrong?
To: "Tokyo Linux Users Group" <tlug@example.com>
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On 27/08/06, Michael Engel <mkengel@example.com> wrote:

>Your argument makes sense on the face of it. I still need to read the
>link you sent and think about it some, but the biggest issue I have
>with software patents is that patent authorities do not seem to have
>the ability to avoid giving frivolous patents, or correctly checking

The problem is that in the US, the people giving out patents lately don't seem to know what patent law says.  They patent processes that are not even upgrades to existing actual patents...  They patent things that have been used as common practice for a decade, but because there is no patent yet, they assume it hasn't been invented.  The word of the law says they have to take measures to make sure that no patent has been filed at any point, and that it is not already a common process.  Those laws are violated by many patents currently in existence. =(

Patents, in and of themselves are not wrong, but the current patent administrating body is nuts....