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My argument is based on the premise that most software patents are bad for our economy. Amazon's One-Click patent is a perfect example. Amazon would have devel
by galenward 13y ago
My argument is based on the premise that most software patents are bad for our economy.
Amazon's One-Click patent is a perfect example. Amazon would have developed one-click whether or not it was patentable. By granting the patent, we granted Amazon a monopoly and didn't get anything in return.
I LOVE the shorter patent idea - particularly for software patents. It wouldn't work for pharma, but that's okay.
- prodigal_erik 13y agoThe monopoly is supposed to be compensation for disclosing how the invention works, not merely creating it. If one-click were so amazingly hard that nobody else could have done it for another twenty years, we might have derived some benefit. But when any of us could do the same in hours, the patent is merely obfuscated drivel.