The campaign End Software Patents issues a call to help list all the arguments against software patents!
End Software patents has a wiki page already set up and says the arguments “will be used as a base for drafting work in the coming weeks and months as well as in the upcoming Bilski case and maybe the New Zealand legislative proposal, and other Current opportunities and dangers.”
Here’s a couple I added:
- Companies in the software industry are banding together for the sole purpose of patent defense (ex: OIN), illustrating the system is broken.
- In the United States, the Constitutional purpose of patents is to “promote the progress of science and useful arts”, but there are numerous studies and reports showing that software patents retard progress, and have a great cost to the economy.
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