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#1 Software patents should be for no more than 5 years. Perhaps that should be true of all trivial inventions. Drug companies, for example, tweak best sellers
by russell 14y ago
#1 Software patents should be for no more than 5 years.
Perhaps that should be true of all trivial inventions. Drug companies, for example, tweak best sellers coming off patent protection by adding another compatible compound and getting another 20 years, although the original compound looses protection.
- monochromatic 14y agoThere's a rule that'd be tough to administer if I've ever seen one.
- danielweber 14y agoSoftware patents that expire in 5 years could be very agreeable if the time it takes for them to be granted dropped from 3 years to around 6 months.
- homosaur 14y agoSoftware patents should not exist. Implementation is everything, ideas are easy. Copyright covers everything important.