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Fluff. The author suggests reducing the duration of software patents to seven years as a solution to current problems. There are no other suggested correction
by tsally 17y ago
Fluff. The author suggests reducing the duration of software patents to seven years as a solution to current problems. There are no other suggested corrections. This does nothing to address the "One-Click" class of software patents. Further, it doesn't even make a very strong case for why seven year software patents would actually solve problems. I'm pretty sure many software patent trolls sue within seven years. In addition, the author seems to be under the bizarre assumption that Chinese companies actually respect US patents.
- alain94040 17y agoI'm the author. Yes, there are other suggested improvements to the patent office, such as rejecting obvious patents. Except you can't easily fix that, whereas substituting 20 by 7 is something that can be done by your average lawmaker. Regarding China: you must have misinterpreted what I was saying. I pointed to China as an example of what would happen if we dropped patent protection completely. Indeed, China doesn't care much about patents currently, and it's not a world I want to live in.