I have often thought that there should be shorter patent terms for software patents since they can be profited from quickly, compared to patents for biology and hardware inventions. This would seem to me to be a "middle road" approach whereby innovation in algorithms etc would be encouraged but which would limit how much profit could be obtained from inventions that would likely be generated by someone else within a few years.
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I have often thought that there should be shorter patent terms for software patents since they can be profited from quickly, compared to patents for biology and hardware inventions. This would seem to me to be a "middle road" approach whereby innovation in algorithms etc would be encouraged but which would limit how much profit could be obtained from inventions that would likely be generated by someone else within a few years.
I have often thought that shorter patent terms for software patents