arstechnica.com— A coalition of patent reform advocacy groups has launched a new project that aims to challenge the legality of software patents.
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Philosophically, I can see a case for software patents: ideas on how to do things have value, whether those ideas are how to put together a mechanical device that does something neat, or ideas of how to put together algorithms and data structures to solve a tricky problem. Practically, the purpose of the patent system isn't to reward those with ideas, but to foster innovation for the benefit of society as a whole. In physical invention, there are substantial costs of materials, fabrication, and experimentation. In software, those costs go away, and the primary cost is just programmer's time. So, software innovation doesn't require nearly as rich a reward structure to encourage innovation effectively. There have been a lot of attempted software/business process patents precisely because the low cost of putting together an implementation. It's easy to churn these out (especially if you have no regard for obviousness or prior art), but for precisely for the same reason, very, very few of these should ever be granted. However, I'm not comfortable saying that no software patents should be granted at all. Sometimes an idea or algorithm really is new and only comes as a result of years of work.
Allegory and cliches come to mind you were talking about patenting a sentence. Patents are, and should be, different than copyrights. Lawyers help people get confused with this stuff.
elravalFeb 29, 2008
Yes! Wait... No!
leesoongFeb 29, 2008
I thought Microsoft patented all the 1's and 0's ?<a class="user" href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130">http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130</a>
byogmanFeb 29, 2008
Philosophically, I can see a case for software patents: ideas on how to do things have value, whether those ideas are how to put together a mechanical device that does something neat, or ideas of how to put together algorithms and data structures to solve a tricky problem. Practically, the purpose of the patent system isn't to reward those with ideas, but to foster innovation for the benefit of society as a whole. In physical invention, there are substantial costs of materials, fabrication, and experimentation. In software, those costs go away, and the primary cost is just programmer's time. So, software innovation doesn't require nearly as rich a reward structure to encourage innovation effectively. There have been a lot of attempted software/business process patents precisely because the low cost of putting together an implementation. It's easy to churn these out (especially if you have no regard for obviousness or prior art), but for precisely for the same reason, very, very few of these should ever be granted. However, I'm not comfortable saying that no software patents should be granted at all. Sometimes an idea or algorithm really is new and only comes as a result of years of work.
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Allegory and cliches come to mind you were talking about patenting a sentence. Patents are, and should be, different than copyrights. Lawyers help people get confused with this stuff.
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