[Patents] law dot com articles

[Nick@bigfatpanda.fsnet.co.uk (Nick Fleming)]

Actually the series of articles at law.com on patents
has a lot of useful info and figures on the state of play
within the patent system as a whole.

What is interesting to me is that its not just software that
 seems to be suffering but the patent system as a whole.
I note that the U.S. patent office has had its funding
cut substantially - "undermining its ability to regulate the
patent system."

Large multi-nationals will be able to implement a denial
of service attack not unlike the internets ping flooding
(where a server is unable to cope with demand just by
people sending data to it) by simply applying for as
many patents as possible.

Im just wondering if anyone else thinks there should be
some sort of limit on the number of patents a company
(or group of companies) can file within a specific time
period ??

regards,

Nick Fleming

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