On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Nagarjuna G <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Pranesh Prakash <[email protected]> > wrote: > > By Ryan Paul from Ars Technica: > > http://j.mp/d11PU9 > > > > At the Linux Foundation's annual LinuxCon event this week, Columbia > > University law professor and Software Freedom Law Center founder Eben > > Moglen explained that prospects for software patent reform are bleak and > > that the time has come for the free software community to start finding > > ways to solve its patent problems by using the patent system itself. > > > > Isn't this a good news to lawyers :-) > > This is not a solution to the problem. The cause of the problem is > the denial of the fundamental right to the citizens to be creative. > We need to claim this right. > I agree with you here. This is an argument that has not yet been articulated by our community. > > As a freedom fighter I see that the time has come to look for what is > patented or patentable and publish multiple versions of the software > that implements the patent and make the patenting system defunct. > In the case of software, this is already the case. There are an estimated 200,000 software patents in the US, around 4,500 patents on e-commerce and 11,000 patents on online shopping. Any software that is used easily violates many of these patents. More on my blog at: http://osindia.blogspot.com/2008/11/practical-problem-with-software-patents.html For more detailed reading, Bessen and Meurer's research is probably one of the best. They have a web site at: http://researchoninnovation.org/ Their book, "Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk" is a very important read. Some of its chapters are available at: http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/ Venky
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