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Story: Judge dreads software patents

Posted by: Roderick Klein (Tuesday 17 January 2006, 12:22 AM)

There is an error in the article, the European Parlement and the commision have both already funded research into software patents.
Yet the European Commision puts reports that are not supportive of software patents in a driawer.

When will also these people in the European Commision stop with there dreams about patents. Who ever came up with this fairy tale that patents are an improvement for innovation. In the field of software they are not.

Now another round of research. They heard it OVER and OVER again. Small and Medium sized companies are not interested and will not benefit from software patents. The only companies that benefit are companies that buy truck loads of patents and then sue small players there pants of. Pay or see you in court. Or it are companies that have money problems so they do a "reinventory of the I.P.".

Read this:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060115145429444
and this
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060111223959235

And groups like EICTA and BSA that claim to represent small and medium size business pushing for broad software patents don't represent us. They are rather represent large companies.