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Story: Patent Impending

Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 2 September 2003, 9:31 PM)

The US allowing software patents back in the days of Regan/Bush Sr. was a blatent right-wing greed fest...all you have to do is look at the total mess that has happened in the patenting of software in the US. You had law students evaluating software patents, not skilled practioners in the computer field...once any of these questionable patents have been granted, it's allmost inpossible to get it in-validated...other examples of patenting prior art as a new concept abound...patents have been proved to strangle any new innovation as it is almost impossible, even for the original inventors to understand a typical patent due to the lawyer legalies applied to patents....patents were originally intended to protect the small inventor...that's a load of crap, it just protects the big corporation, ask Eddison, he even admitted it, he would devalue.bully every small inventor until he got his way and aquired their invention/patents and added to his huge arsenal of patents (he was the Bill-Gates/Microsoft of his era)