The best software patents may not be as good as the best pharmaceutical patents.
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But shorter terms for software patents would at least be a step in the right direction.
And opposition to software patents fits naturally into the broader Tea Party policy agenda.
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So, I can understand why smaller developers would feel personally threatened by software patents.
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The debate over software patents also ties into another conservative concern: the proliferation of frivolous litigation.
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They were thus blindsided when the Federal Circuit started upholding software patents in 1989.
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Thus, trying to fix software patents might cause us to violate our international treaty obligations.
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Software patents are clearly a restriction of freedom for anyone who is threatened with a patent lawsuit.
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The debate over software patents does not unite Silicon Valley the way the debate over SOPA does.
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In all likelihood, we may need participation from each institution to fully redress the problems with software patents.
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If the industry could find a way to avoid software patents, the overall industry would be better off.
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What are you planning to do to limit the abuses of software patents?
The amount of energy that the big tech companies are expending to document and defend software patents makes no sense.
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Even software patents at issue in the Samsung case would have been considered a stretch a decade ago, he said.
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With roughly 400, 000 software patents presently in force, it is impossible for entrepreneurs to determine upfront whether they might infringe one.
Beginning in 1989, the Federal Circuit began handing down a series of decisions that made it easier to get software patents.
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When we interviewed him at Google, where he now works, he told us that software patents posed a real threat to innovation.
Most of the smart people I talk to agree that software patents today are providing too much protection, and are hampering progress.
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Ironically, Bill Gates himself predicted this outcome in 1991, back when the courts had only begun to legalize software patents.
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The legalization of software patents produced a backlash in the software industry.
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Oracle testified at the Patent Office opposing software patents in 1994.
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What's at the heart of this is something that is much easier to obtain in the US than in Europe - software patents.
If the impetus for software patents came from the Supreme Court, we should have expected that backlash to start in the early 1980s.
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An outmoded patent application review process and a thicket of overbroad, overlapping software patents creates minefields for everyone from startups to major tech companies.
If the impetus for software patents came from the Supreme Court in 1981, why did Oracle wait until 1994 to start complaining about it?
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In general, the most elegant solutions to software patents involve changes to the patent statute, although most advocates are reluctant to explore this route.
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First, there are so many software patents, and they have such unclear boundaries, that finding and negotiating the rights to necessary patents is essentially impossible.
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The result is overbroad software patents that overclaim their true novelty.
The first member of Congress to champion the abolition of software patents would attract a significant amount of attention and support from these prosperous and well-educated voters.
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