Story: BSA figures do not add up
Posted by: Thomas Haugland (Saturday 25 June 2005, 7:26 PM)
Great article! It is good to see that someone exposes the BSA's lies/manipulation.
"...and 81% of them rely on patent protection for their businesses."
Businesses relying on patent protection, does not necessarily benefit from patents. A lot of patents are used primarily as a way to avoid litigation from other companies. This is certainly used by the big companies (eg. IBM).
While IBM is granted thousands of patents each year, some higher ranking IBM employees have been critical of the patent system. A lot of the patents are merely commodity items used to avoid being sued by other patent holders.
I just hope that the politicians will spend some time and energy to do their own research.
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