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Story: EU to throw patents in with the bath water

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I work for a small software vendor/developer. We sell open source software and closed source products. We also develop some of our own products. We sell software from a lot of single man companies. Most software patents are of such low low quality. I have been to Brussels there on behalf of the company I work for and explained to parlement members we don't need software patents and we will never have the time or the funding to get the patents.

Now you have companies like Acacia research with there patents. When you read the claims that are for instance in the Acacia patents its just plain fraud!

http://www.acaciatechnologies.com/technology_main.htm

From there website:

Acacia’s Digital Media Transmission or “DMT” technology involves the transmission and receipt of digital audio and/or audio video content via a variety of means including the internet, cable, satellite, and local area networks. Elements of the DMT transmission process include a source material library, identification encoding process, format conversion, sequence encoding, compressed data storage, and transmission. Elements of the DMT receiving process include a transceiver, format conversion, storage, decompression, and playback.

How more generic must it become ?
Reading the patents more indepth you also notice how (to!) broad the claims are/

That this kind of garbage is accepted by patent offices. A patent should introduce something new. And most software patents are bad joke. Reading the claims make you realy wonder how skilled some of the patent reviewers are.

This is how Brussels (Europe) gives itself a good image :-(

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