[Patents] economic studies

[Gregory Aharonian srctran@world.std.com]

Hartmut writes:
>You apparently don't want any reform.  Your main concern is in keeping
>reform pressure away from patent offices.

Nice lie, which if you said to anyone in America, would be laughed at
hilariously.  For seven years, I have been arguing vigorously to
reform the patent examination process to improve the quality, which
would eliminate many of the bad patents in all fields of technology.

Your probably-losing cause to eliminate software patents seems more the
strategy of keeping pressure off of the patent offices - the patent
offices look at the hopelessness and ill-defined nature of your goals
and figure they will have little impact so the patent offices can then
keep doing what they are doing, especially if they conclude like me that
you are against all forms of patenting.

Greg Aharonian