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Broken Patent System? Google, Apple Disagree

Posted by kdawson on from the with-a-straight-face dept.

Whiney Mac Fanboy writes "The AlwaysOn Stanford Summit featured the panel discussion 'The Patent Crisis: Crossroads for the Business of Technology.' Speakers included patent lawyers from Google, IBM, and Apple. According to The Register, Google's and Apple's patent jocks had diametrically opposing views. Google's head of patents believes the system is in crisis: 'The Patent Office is overburdened,' she said. 'The volume of patents going in is huge. And the quality of patents coming out — it could be better.' But Apple's chief patent counsel said the US patent system was 'not broken' and 'not in crisis,' calling it 'the best in the world.'"

2 of 230 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Apple Says Patent System is Like a Battery... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Elton John says Internet is destroying patents.

  2. A Blinding Flash of the Obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Apple takes existing technology and puts it behind a slick interface. They do not innovate as Google does.