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It's good that Europe and most of the world, except USA, does not support software patents. No need to spend countless hours in defending against frivolous pate

It's good that Europe and most of the world, except USA, does not support software patents. No need to spend countless hours in defending against frivolous patents. It's like Amazon's single click buy patent, hopefully will be struck down in future like the former.

partiallypro 7y ago
Isn't that patent expired as of recently?
- dragonsh 7y ago
  Yes it did but it lost earlier. But still wasted a lot of resources which could have gone in something of real value to nature or humanity. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220290418_Amazon's_One-Click_Patent_Loses_Its_Teeth_Micro_Law https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220290418_Amazon's_...
  - fastball 7y ago
    But still wasted a lot of resources which could have gone in something of real value to nature or humanity That's arguably 90% of law in hindsight. The problem is that humans aren't psychic, and without the legal system we have a hard time getting along.
    - RugnirViking 7y ago
      I'm genuinely unconvinced that we would be worse off with a reduction or removal of patents' scope over much of modern monopolising in many industries. Sure, it's difficult to know with any certainty that changing the law wouldn't have bad knock-on effects, but what is clear to see is that the implimentation as it currently stands allows for some flagrant abuses.
rjmunro 7y ago
"Software patents" are not allowed in Europe, but in practise you just have to call them "computer implemented inventions", and write them in legalese nonsense that is even less readable than a pure software patent would be, avoiding mentioning any keyword known in the fields of computer science or software engineering. More detail: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/swpat.en.html https://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/swpat.en.html The law should be something like just manipulating the electronic state on an otherwise non-infringing machine is never an infringement. You have to actually connect it to new hardware.

partiallypro 7y ago

Isn't that patent expired as of recently?

dragonsh 7y ago
Yes it did but it lost earlier. But still wasted a lot of resources which could have gone in something of real value to nature or humanity. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220290418_Amazon's_One-Click_Patent_Loses_Its_Teeth_Micro_Law https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220290418_Amazon's_...
- fastball 7y ago
  But still wasted a lot of resources which could have gone in something of real value to nature or humanity That's arguably 90% of law in hindsight. The problem is that humans aren't psychic, and without the legal system we have a hard time getting along.
  - RugnirViking 7y ago
    I'm genuinely unconvinced that we would be worse off with a reduction or removal of patents' scope over much of modern monopolising in many industries. Sure, it's difficult to know with any certainty that changing the law wouldn't have bad knock-on effects, but what is clear to see is that the implimentation as it currently stands allows for some flagrant abuses.

rjmunro 7y ago

"Software patents" are not allowed in Europe, but in practise you just have to call them "computer implemented inventions", and write them in legalese nonsense that is even less readable than a pure software patent would be, avoiding mentioning any keyword known in the fields of computer science or software engineering. More detail: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/swpat.en.html https://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/swpat.en.html The law should be something like just manipulating the electronic state on an otherwise non-infringing machine is never an infringement. You have to actually connect it to new hardware.