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What is the Right Patent Policy?

Posted by Cliff on from the if-it's-broke-fix-it dept.

Jeremy asks: "I am drafting a policy for my employer's patents and software. My employer is unwilling to do away with software patents altogether, but I believe that there are benefits in restricting our patents' enforcement. Comments on our draft of a policy and opinions on what the business advantages of both sides are greatly appreciated."

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  1. let me get this straight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    your employer owns all rights to the patents and you expect some little piece of paper that you write stating how patents should be used to be obeyed when it comes down to the buck? yeah right. your policy it not legally binding.

  2. Overall by intermodal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Overall, it's decent. While I do have issues with the concept of software patents, this seems to grasp the basics of allowing free software to use it for free while non-free will have issues. IANAL, but one thing: If someone were to write GPLed software and it got included in a distribution like Red Hat, for example. How does this factor in?

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