[Patents] Re: Defensive Publishing

[phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)]

> - their views on the relevance of defensive publishing for the open source
> software community. In particular, why so few open source developers have
> (so I am told) shown interest in using www.priorart.org, although it was
> intended to help them in their struggle against the patenting of software

See
        Why priorart.org is not helpful and what could work instead
        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/gacri/indexen.html

> Finally, I would welcome comments on the following observation:

> "Advocates of defensive publishing tend to sit in one of three
> different camps. There are those who see it as simply a component part
> of a good IP strategy, choosing which inventions to patent, and which
> to simply place in the public domain; there are those who see it as a
> way of cleaning up the patent system, helping to ensure that only
> fundamental inventions are patented, and therefore as a way of
> resolving the overload crisis currently gripping patent offices around
> the world; and there are those who view it as an alternative to
> patenting, and who tend to believe that -- as a tool created for the
> industrial age -- the IP system is no longer appropriate in today's
> economy."

Good observations, although I don't exactly understand where the last camp
is to be found and what its beliefs are.  I don't know anyone who would
say without differntiation that "the IP system is no longer appropriate".
Also, I don't understand how such a position could be a reason for
engaging in defensive publishing.

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