[Patents] Dutch MP's demand triviality criteria in the law before allowing SW pats

[PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de]

> I was thinking more along the lines of arranging it
> as a social game: providing the right incentives
> for all parties involved.  I remember a link

        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/frili/
        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/basti/

> on this list to a system where the applicant publishes
> the problem along with a 'bounty' fee, the rest of the
> world gets a certain time to present a solution (new or
> already existing) and if succeeds gets the bounty, or otherwise
> the monopoly is granted.
>
> I'd be interested to hear other proposals.

It is the only serious proposal I could think of or ever heard from
anyone.

Indeed the patent system should either get serious about non-obviousness
or be rescinded in other ways.  We should pursue this non-obviousness
criterion to the point where the pro-patent people themselves come up
with the older strict technicity theory and ask for the patent system to
be tolerated at least in that area.  That is much nicer than having to
argue about technicity with people who don't want to understand, because
they believe they can impose their crappy system on everything without
resistance.

-phm