Patents are bad

[Chris Rees]

2009/12/17 Peter Davis <paddax at googlemail.com>:
> I have always maintained that software patents are a pretty bad thing and
> have found that certain companies, particularly market leaders, like them on
> the basis that a patent portfolio is better than any set of innovations
> presented by a competitor as patent trading will always see the incumbent on
> top.
>
> Maybe I'm cynical but I usually see large companies only too willing to pay
> money to patent trolls as a method of validating the software patent system,
> so it's nice to see a company vigorously trying to overturn a patent troll
> rather than just paying up.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8197990.stm
>

Nice to see the biggest patent troll of all being suckered like that.
Hopefully they'll demonstrate the lunacy of software patents while
making their defence.

Chris


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