Re: [Patents] Gregnews rants against NYT "anti-business patents editorial"

["Gérald Sédrati-Dinet (gibus)" <gerald@sedrati-dinet.net>]

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PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> GregNews slams an "Anti-Business Patent Editorial" of the New York Times, 
> with
> the usual claims about how "unscientific" any attempt to limit 
> patentability is.
> 
> I leave out the GregNews rants and just quote some of the quotes from NYT:
> 
> [...rant...]
> 
>     "The broken American system has a knack for sanctioning the
>     ridiculous.  In the latest example, businesses are receiving
>     patents for devising ways to obey the law - the code, to be
>     more specific.  What's next, a patented murder defense?"
> 
> [...rant...]
> 
>     "Once the Patent and Trademark Office has granted one of these
>     patents, everyone who used the same legal shelter - even if
>     they drew the conclusion based on their own interpretation of
>     the tax code - would be subject to lawsuits and even injunctions
>     against using the method."
> 
> [...rant...]
> 
>     "Tax-strategy patents, they argue [supporters of such patents],
>     are more geared toward the complicated tax returns of rich
>     people." and "The easy stuff [obvious methods] should be 
>     rejected under the usual standard that requires patents to be
>     novel and not obvious."
> 
> [...rant...]
> 
> I can't find anything like this on
> 
>   http://press.ffii.org/Software_patent_news

I've done it last week in French on http://wiki.fii.org/SwpatcninoFr
which list an International Herald Tribune article about those "tax
strategy patents", and some comments on
http://wiki.ffii.org/TaxStrategyPatentsFr and
http://www.ffii.fr/Brevets-sur-les-strategies-fiscales

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Gérald Sédrati-Dinet (Gibus)
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