The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most software patents, including pioneering patent claims to such innovators as Google, Inc.
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motters
16 years 10 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago
Game over for software patents?
I'm not entirely clear about what this means. Does it mean that software patents have been defeated and are no longer valid ? If so, that would be a major victory for software developers worldwide.
kiba
16 years 10 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago
Not only for software
Not only for software developers, but society as a whole as well.(Except the patent trolls and patent lawyers)
Since our resource are freed from defending and acquiring patent nuclear stockpile, we can focus on more wealth creation instead of fighting monopolists.
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schestowitz
16 years 10 weeks 20 hours 8 sec ago
No premature celebrations
Groklaw calls it FUD
Also:
Software Patent Supporter Tries To Pretend Google Harmed Without Software Patents
"Finally, the post is ethically questionable, as its author, John Duffy, was hired by a software company, RDC, to write an amicus brief in the Bilski case pushing for the position that software should remain patentable. This is not disclosed in the post. In other words, he's clearly biased in favor of making sure that the end result of Bilski is that software patents remain in tact, and a little publicity campaign, stirred up by misleading claims that everyone's beloved Google will somehow be harmed could help push public sentiment towards allowing software patents."