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Red Hat Urges USPTO To Deny Most Software Patents

Posted by samzenpus on from the stop-giving-it-away dept.

Julie188 writes "The United States Patent and Trademark Office asked for public input on how it should use the Supreme Court's Bilski decision to guide it when granting new patents. Not surprisingly, Red Hat took them up on it. The USPTO should use Bilski and the fact that the machine transformation test is 'important' to Just Say No to most software patents, it advised. Rob Tiller, Red Hat's Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, IP, is hopeful that the patent office will listen and put an end to the crazy software patent situation that has turned patents into weapons that hinder innovation."

6 of 175 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Help us steal from others! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you calling Red Hat thieves?

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  4. Re:Help us steal from others! by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So your point is that you're a troll. Gotcha.

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    "linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
  5. Re:Help us steal from others! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    RedHat stole the colour red from CocaCola!

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