-----Original Message----- From: Josh Sled [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: vtSDA Lunch and Learn (10/20) * Protecting Software Patents
Bradley Holt <[email protected]> writes: >> I was wondering how soon after that email went out we'd see a thread >> about it here on the VAGUE mailing list. It took less than 20 minutes >> :-) >> >> I'm strongly opposed to software patents (for reasons which I'm sure >> are obvious to everyone here) and am considering going to the meeting >> to hear what he has to say. >Indeed, I'm trying to think of questions along the lines of how best to >disallow the patentability of ideas, maybe through extended public >notice, such that future prior art searches would have a higher chance >of finding submissions non-novel and/or obvious. > >Of course, given how obvious and non-novel existing software patent >grants are, maybe it wouldn't matter if there was even more evidence >that's not being looked at. > >But that itself is another facet I'd love to hear about from someone in >the space. > >-- >...jsled >http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b} I wondered exactly the same thing here; software patents are being struck down as indefensible in much of the world (the EU in particular), and our local software developers guild is having a presentation on how to defend them? Seriously? If my schedule permits, you can bet I'll be there wearing my flame proof suit and doing a typically poor job of sitting down and shutting up :) R
