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Is This Sufficiently Cynical?
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 05:06 PM EDT
Good luck with getting BRICS to agree to any collective action at
WTO/WIPO. They are more likely to individually ignore WTO/WIPO
where it suits their own selfish agendas. While this may ultimately
lead to the collapse of software patents I suspect it will take much
longer than you expect.

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Mostly just a US problem
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 05:08 PM EDT
I'm hoping that 4-5 nations look at what the US has done and realise that if they accept software patents, it will kill their domestic software industries stone dead.

That's a very puzzling line, as the problem only has this magnitude and severity in the US. The rest of the world by and large isn't playing the USPTO game on software patents.

For example, the EU admits the possibility of software patents but only within narrow constraints, and those constraints effectively block the patenting of algorithms and methods such as Oracle's blessed '104 and '520 which cover just ordinary mechanisms of software engineering. Thus, the problem we're seeing in court today doesn't exist in Europe, despite the megacorps accumulating patent mountains over there as well.

It's very much a US problem, exacerbated by the "everyone must sue everyone else" cultural phenomenon which also is largely US-only.

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