Re: [Patents] pooling patents for progress and protection

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 02:50:26PM -0500, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> 
> > >I don't know the correct way for fighting software patents.
> > 
> > Easy solution - help patent offices give more time and prior art resources
> > to their examiners so that the patent examiners can issue far fewer but a
> > much higher quality software patent.  I have long argued that over 60% of
> > thes issued software patents are invalid.
> 
>   You argue that it is 60%, others argue that it is 100%.  I am in the
> latter group and simply do not see the merit to granting patent monopolies
> in the software or business model fields.
> 
>   The simplest argument I have made is based on the idea that the 'term'
> of copyright and patents should be tied to the cost of development and
> speed of innovation in a given field, and to stop trying to treat all
> these extremely different fields identically.

Aharonian just happens to be politically a totalitarian, like Gates,
Stalin, and a few others.  It is obviously, for him, a matter of
opinion, not of reasonning.


Bernard

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