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Story: EU seeks 'legally clever' patent definition

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Conflict of interest?

IP lawyers stand to gain most from software patent law, because there will be conflict requiring lawyers to resolve where none existed previously. JURI asking IP lawyers what the laws should be is a catastrophic blow to the freedom of software developers (who will be the ones affected most by the laws).

Software patents exist simply to shift societal power away from the computer geeks and back to the lawyers and business"men". No geek should honour a patent. No geek should expect other geeks to honour a patent.

Letting those who would profit most from the introduction of a new law write the new law is terrible. There are ethical IP lawyers, but they are few and far between. The new class of "patent troll" companies are staffed almost entirely by patent lawyers looking to defraud society.

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