Support Forums: Message List - Opinion: A Simple Solution for the Patent Mess http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Thu, 23 May 2013 17:40:34 -0400 Software is special http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554 Software is special because it is infinitely composable. Perhaps more so than in any other field, today's inventions in software become the building blocks of tomorrow's inventions. Software is not special, the same is true for...]]> Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:20:49 -0400 Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:20:49 -0400 Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:20:49 -0400 Oct 26, 2004 Konstantin Ignatyev 0 Software is special http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554
The US Constitution makes clear that the purpose of patent and...]]> Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:23:02 -0400 Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:23:02 -0400 Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:23:02 -0400 Oct 26, 2004 Bill Schneider 1 Re: Opinion: A Simple Solution for the Patent Mess http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554 .....

There is only one solution to fix the software patent problem: drop it.
I think that we may have found a solution.]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:47:41 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:47:41 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:47:41 -0400 Oct 25, 2004 Joe Java 0 Re: Opinion: A Simple Solution for the Patent Mess http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:51:54 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:51:54 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:51:54 -0400 Oct 25, 2004 Philippe Grenet 1 How about limits on number of patents that an entity can hold http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554
This would help...]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:48:40 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:48:40 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:48:40 -0400 Oct 25, 2004 Joe Java 0 Good book to read about patents http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554 Can be found here.
It makes an interesting read, and the mess clears up a bit (you understand that you can't compete with the...]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:30:12 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:30:12 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:30:12 -0400 Oct 25, 2004 Edward Moraru 0 Let the patent process work against itself http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554
1) If I apply for a patent then I get it almost immediately.

2) If someone already had the patent, I get fined some amount, and the money...]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:37:50 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:37:50 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:37:50 -0400 Oct 25, 2004 Stacy Curl 1 Re: Opinion: A Simple Solution for the Patent Mess http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554 5. There is no simple algorithm to determine inventiveness and obviousness. Any invention will become obvious and trivial to someone once revealed. (The Theory of General Relativity could become trivial to one in the field of physics after...]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:59:20 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:59:20 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:59:20 -0400 Oct 25, 2004 Klas Skogmar 2 No Software Patents! http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/index.html]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2004 05:42:51 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 05:42:51 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 05:42:51 -0400 Oct 25, 2004 Volker Bohmer 0 Back to first principles http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554 The patent system largely works for engineering inventions. So this discussion is limited to software, not the patent system in general. First of all, does the patent system differentiate between technical fields when granting patents?...]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:23:26 -0400 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:23:26 -0400 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:23:26 -0400 Oct 24, 2004 hacking bear 0 Opinion: A Simple Solution for the Patent Mess http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554
4. Truly useful inventions deserve more protection.
Why? And how is "usefulness" measured? Impossible, of course.
"by the market"
The government can...]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:16:33 -0400 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:16:33 -0400 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:16:33 -0400 Oct 24, 2004 hacking bear 0 What about marketing skills? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:09:17 -0400 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:09:17 -0400 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:09:17 -0400 Oct 24, 2004 hacking bear 0 TSS needs a reader protection algorithm!! http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:00:13 -0400 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:00:13 -0400 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:00:13 -0400 Oct 24, 2004 hacking bear 0 TSS needs a reader protection algorithm!! http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:16:16 -0400 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:16:16 -0400 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:16:16 -0400 Oct 24, 2004 tom tarb 1 Back to first principles http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29554 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 06:45:21 -0400 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 06:45:21 -0400 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 06:45:21 -0400 Oct 24, 2004 Michael Ansley 1