Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Michael R wrote:
>
>> Summary: Venture capitalists have heavily invested in
patent ownership
>> companies that extort payment for patents they
control. Scary because the
>> USPO has issued thousands of patents
for software ideas. As in "online
>> backup" is covered
by over 3,000 patents, of which at least three have
>> identical
titles. (So much for "non-obvious and unique")
>
>
It never made sense to me why the USPTO ever allowed 'business processes'
> and 'software' to be patented. Why not patent the use of the '+' sign
and
> the process of addition to get the sum of two numbers?
Egregiousness taken
> to the obscene extreme.
The USPTO
didn't allow them to be patented until the court system insisted.
Some
saw the potential for profit and successfully sued the patent office into
granting
software and business process patents.
--
Michael Rasmussen
http://www.jamhome.us/
Be Appropriate
&& Follow Your Curiosity
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