Comments on: Microsoft’s Patent Pipedream

By: Patents Trolls: They Do Exist

Patents Trolls: They Do Exist — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:59:22 +0000

[...] work, and hope that the IPLC database is used to drive patent reform, demystifying a complicated issue. Higher quality patents will protect investments in intellectual property while preserving the [...]

By: staff1

staff1 — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:48:54 +0000

“The U.S. has recently improved that quality of its recent software patents, and they are now among the most difficult to obtain. However, the system is in flux, and a massive number of questionable patents have already been issued.”

Poppycock! The problem is not the patents that are being issued, but rather the patents that are not.

Patent reform is a fraud on America…
Please see http://truereform.piausa.org/ for a different/opposing view on patent reform.

By: Dale B. Halling

Dale B. Halling — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:33:13 +0000

While a world patent organization is not likely to happen, some of the benefits could be obtained by having reciprocity between countries. In other words, the U.S. recognizes patent issued by the Canadian patent office as valid. This idea was first proposed by the U.S. in the late 1800s according to B. Zorina Kahn’s book “The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920“. Copyrights were national, like patents today, in the 1800s and Mark Twain argued that this hurt American authors, since American publishers had an incentive to publish foreign works over books by American authors. The national patent system hurts start-up companies and the world economy by reducing their valuations, and encouraging foreign companies to copy innovation rather than innovate themselves. For more ways to provide real reform to the patent system see http://hallingblog.com/2009/05/29/real-patent-reform/

By: Finn Jack

Finn Jack — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:46:12 +0000

Patents are a complicated issue, and there is unlikely to be any type of international convention or treaty any time in the foreseeable future.
>>>> Having Patent system helps in holding one’s innovation but stops using the innovation for other inventions. It puts a bar on creativity, also patents play confusing roles and raises issues often.

By: rusli zainal sang visioner

rusli zainal sang visioner — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:23:07 +0000

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