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Story: Patent campaigners make government breakthrough

Posted by: Steve J (Friday 17 December 2004, 5:19 PM)

I think the fact remains that no software developer or software development company feels they are being 'hard done by' because they can't patent their ideas, in complete opposition to the fact that most American software companies (except the ones with really big guns) appear to be running scared.

The problem is computers and computer software moves forward at such a rate that patents in their current definition have absolutely no relevance whatsoever and would cause massive harm to most software companies. Incidentally of course, they would be hugely beneficial to patent attorneys and lawyers.

I am a software developer, working for a software development company. We don't need patents and we don't want them. We want to spend our money creating new ideas and improving people's lives, not on court cases.