Story: Small firms 'failed' by patent law
Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 2 March 2006, 10:03 PM)
Just look at the mess that "more accessible" patents have created in the US. The Blackberry mess, the JPG fiasco and there is Balthauser and the AJAX/Flash/PDF/Javascript patent.
The absurd thing is that the patent holders can screw millions of dollars out of other companys and then when their patents are ruled invalid they do NOT have to give the money back.
If patents are ever going to be a success then the invention must be genuinely new. It is unlikely that any of Microsoft's patents would survive that test.
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