The Economist on Patent Reform

ar1550 writes "The Economist recently posted an opinion piece on the state of patent systems, describing not just the mess that is the USPTO but flaws present in Europe and Asia. From the article, "In 1998 America introduced so-called 'business-method' patents, granting for the first time patent monopolies simply for new ways of doing business, many of which were not so new. This was a mistake." The article also describes the difficulty of obtaining legitimate patents. "

Comments

Re:One-sided article

[Kenja]

"Greed and money. The oldest reasons in the book."

So when a lone inventer/devloper wants to rpotect what they've created from large corporaations their just being greedy?

Re:One-sided article

[cshark]

Don't blame bush for enacting it. Blame Clinton for allowing it. But you can only blame Clinton for so much, contrary to what the right wing will have you believe. If something Clinton signed hasn't worked out in the long run, you would think someone would have noticed by now. And with republicans having majorities in both houses and the executive branch, they shouldn't have any problem passing laws to fix any of this stuff, right? Blame Bush for letting this, and every other domestic issue like the gaping trade deficit we have in this country get out of control. He wanted to be the man running the show, and now he has more power than any president in recent memory. Yet he still can't get anything done if it doesn't involve killing something. God help us all.