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So what do software inventors in these countries do with their inventions? Edit - It seems to me that there’s clamoring about software patents without suggesti

So what do software inventors in these countries do with their inventions? Edit - It seems to me that there’s clamoring about software patents without suggestions for alternatives. Were software patents always disallowed in these countries? If not, what was the overall effect of “ending” them? Was there innovation and business activity, before and after? Edit2 - https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2470358C2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2470358C2/en

magashna 7y ago
Sell support
reitzensteinm 7y ago
What software inventors? All I see are people standing on the shoulders of giants claiming the next six feet as their own.
NeedMoreTea 7y ago
We don't consider 99% of them patentable. They're a technique, a style, an algorithm. No more an invention than a simple method for doing arithmetic. Software can rarely come under a patent in the EU, but there is a very high bar to reach first. It's not my field so I'll avoid trying to explain where that bar is.
deogeo 7y ago
> software inventors Are those the companies that force patented technology, to the exclusion of free alternatives, into widely used standards, so that they can charge everyone that wants to read a FAT32 filesystem? The ones that patent an idea, not method, like one-click buying, or minigames in loading screens? The ones that have some overly broad, unreadable patent, that would be invalidated in court due to countless prior art, but use it to extort businesses for amounts too small to make litigation worthwhile? Or is this some mythical inventor, that creates something actually useful, and licenses it to others at fair prices? Something that improves the state of the art, but bizarrely does not rely on any prior patents in that area (otherwise existing companies could simply block the use of the new method)? And this someone isn't already employed at some company where the invention was made during the normal course of R&D (because otherwise, you already have your answer as to what software inventors do - write software/do R&D for existing companies that need it). How many such people are there? Enough to justify the enormous headache of software patents?
fungi 7y ago
Make products and sell them
yxhuvud 7y ago
It is upon you, who think there is a need to replace them with anything, to motivate why. As far as I'm concerned, patents don't solve a problem and is therefore harmful.

magashna 7y ago

Sell support

reitzensteinm 7y ago

What software inventors? All I see are people standing on the shoulders of giants claiming the next six feet as their own.

NeedMoreTea 7y ago

We don't consider 99% of them patentable. They're a technique, a style, an algorithm. No more an invention than a simple method for doing arithmetic. Software can rarely come under a patent in the EU, but there is a very high bar to reach first. It's not my field so I'll avoid trying to explain where that bar is.

deogeo 7y ago

> software inventors Are those the companies that force patented technology, to the exclusion of free alternatives, into widely used standards, so that they can charge everyone that wants to read a FAT32 filesystem? The ones that patent an idea, not method, like one-click buying, or minigames in loading screens? The ones that have some overly broad, unreadable patent, that would be invalidated in court due to countless prior art, but use it to extort businesses for amounts too small to make litigation worthwhile? Or is this some mythical inventor, that creates something actually useful, and licenses it to others at fair prices? Something that improves the state of the art, but bizarrely does not rely on any prior patents in that area (otherwise existing companies could simply block the use of the new method)? And this someone isn't already employed at some company where the invention was made during the normal course of R&D (because otherwise, you already have your answer as to what software inventors do - write software/do R&D for existing companies that need it). How many such people are there? Enough to justify the enormous headache of software patents?

fungi 7y ago

Make products and sell them

yxhuvud 7y ago

It is upon you, who think there is a need to replace them with anything, to motivate why. As far as I'm concerned, patents don't solve a problem and is therefore harmful.