Begin forwarded message: From: Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: January 10, 2006 11:01:56 PM EST To: David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ip <[email protected]> Subject: U.S. Office Joins an Effort to Improve Software Patents Surprised I have not seen this on IP yet... U.S. Office Joins an Effort to Improve Software Patents The United States Patent and Trademark Office plans to announce today that it will cooperate with open-source software developers on three initiatives that it says will improve the quality of software patents. [...] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/technology/10blue.html This won't be enough for the vast majority of programmers, who consider all software patents invalid (as they are really mathematics patents). But it's a positive step. Has the Blackberry case (not mentioned in the article) caused the PTO to finally take an interest in the problem of blindingly obvious software patents? Lee ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [email protected] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
