When Good Patents Go Bad

Posted by michael on Thursday December 11, 2003 @03:59AM from the there-are-good-patents? dept.

will writes "The Washington Post has a good review of patents in the information age. The insanity of the US patent system has been chronicled on this site numerous times in the past (for example, an FTC report on patent policy, some patents for obvious applications such as Microsoft patenting local weather, and Amazon patenting inside book searching). The Washington Post article does a good job of overviewing IP issues today, why the current US patent systems fails in the information age, and gives an example of patent extortion. Excuse me while I patent my DNA."

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Re:One Click Local Weather reports by thebatlab · 2003-12-11 05:06 · Score: 0, Flamebait

So you're looking to punish people for not being informed enough to use something other than IE or Windows? Or even the person who uses Windows b/c they only have one machine and would rather not dual boot b/c they need to have Windows installed to run certain apps and feel that is enough for them? Or the person who is able to safely browse with IE and sees no need to go to another browser? Or how about the person that chooses Opera as their primary browser? Sounds like you're pushing what you want b/c *you* think it's the best solution and will have it no other way. Good way to run a store.