Cato Institute Critique of Software Patents

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 30, 2009 @08:16AM from the oprah-favre dept.

binarybits writes "I've written an article for the free-market Cato Institute about how patents impede innovation in the software industry. It points out that people tend not to realize how vast the software industry is. It's not just Google and Microsoft; virtually every organization has an IT department producing potentially-infringing software. Organizations as diverse as J. Crew and the Green Bay Packers have been sued for patent infringement. It's crazy to expect all these organizations to worry about potential patent infringement. Hopefully the Supreme Court's Bilski decision will lead to new limits on software patents."

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Re:Excellent, but... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-08-30 08:33 · Score: -1, Troll

Grrrrrrr, I'm an apex predator and you are my lunch. I'm gonna eat you!
-- Timothy Blee, the submitter
Re:Yes, patent system not meant for software paten by Anonymous Coward · 2009-08-30 09:11 · Score: -1, Troll

Why do you, and the Cato Institute, hate Capitalism?