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- From: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- To: <patents@aful.org>, Roberto Micarelli <mi.ro@iol.it>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] TRIPs lie: the UNICE version
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:22:55 -0400 (EDT)
Roberto writes:
>The problem seems still to be the use of obvious swpats. Too many claims
>with no innovation.....
That is very true. I estimate that more than 50% of the issued software
patents in the United States (which issues over 10,000 swpats a year)
are not valid. A big quality problem, though one shared with other areas
of technology, such as hardware systems and circuits.
These discussions on trying to come up with some artificial distinction
between the patentability of software technology, and any other technology,
is a waste of time as compared to trying to get the patent offices to do
a better job examining patents (and not just software).
Greg Aharonian
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