The Patent Epidemic

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 3, 2006 @06:43AM from the catch-the-fever dept.

cheesedog writes "BusinessWeek is running an editorial titled The Patent Epidemic, which chronicles not only how abusive and absurd our patent system has become for software and business method patents, but how it hurts even traditionally innovative fields such as the automobile industry. Interesting commentary can be found in the regular places, with Right to Create suggesting action you can take to stem the spread of this epidemic, and Patent Prospector attempting to refute BusinessWeek's arguments."

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another ignorant slashbot by fizteh89 · 2006-01-03 07:40 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Hey, Slashbot retard, US patent system has been in place for more
than 200 years.

And nowadays every mindless fuck with a web browser wants to propose radical changes ...

The Founding Fathers were not idiots after all...