Reforming Software Patents with 'Marking'

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 20, 2005 @05:41AM from the no-trespassing-vs.-invisible-fence dept.

sakul writes "Came across an article in the Stanford Law Journal that proposes 'marking' patented software to make the patents obvious to the public and to force large companies patenting software "to play by the same rules as holders of other kinds of patents." Interesting but technical read. Could this be a solution to some of the ever growing problems with software patents?" (Stephen Lindholm, the author of the paper, has provided a link to the paper itself, as well.) On the same topic, karvind writes "Gavin Hill, a film graduate, has produced and directed an interesting animated film on How Software Patents Actually Work. It's explaining the dangers of software patents and how they affect you and your business."

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Fuzzle Fucker by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-20 07:28 · Score: -1, Troll

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