Pamela Samuelson

[Erik Josefsson <ehj@cleosan.com>]

Legally Speaking: Why Reform the U.S. Patent System?
By
Pamela Samuelson

Computing professionals have been complaining for years about "bad" 
software and Internet-related patents. Now there's something they can do 
about it: Support reforms of the U.S. patent system recommended in three 
recent high profile reports--one issued by the Federal Trade Commission, 
one by the National Academy of Sciences, and one by the U.S. Patent and 
Trademark Office [1, 3, 5]. One short column cannot hope to do justice
to all of the recommendations in these reports. But it is possible to 
highlight three key reforms that deserve support.

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/cacm%20patent%20reform.pdf