Fixing the patent system is made more difficult by the structure of patent offices. By being paid for each application that they approve, they are economically dependent on approving a certain number per year.
Even if the patent office decided that it was being too broad in scope or too low in its standards, it is financially problematic for it to consider any changes of course that would lead to it granting fewer patents. -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
