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| Authored by: jbb on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 01:28 AM EDT |
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Judge Michel defended his position by
saying:
Certainly there are software patents out there that are no
good, and that's a shame. We've gotta clean those out. But I'm against these
kinds of broad, polemical ways of proceeding.
The obvious
problem is that neither the USPTO or the courts are qualified to do the weeding
out. The patents in-suit are a perfect example. They are both painfully
obvious applications of general techniques that had been known decades before
the patents were applied for. Yet unless the examiners in the USPTO and the
judges and the lawyers and the juries are practicing in the field, they don't
have the knowledge needed to make this simple evaluation.
How on earth
are you going to weed out the bad software patents when no one who is doing the
weeding can tell the difference between a bad software patent and a "good"
one?
The only recourse we have is to these ultra-expensive trials which are not
only extremely inefficient but are also return extremely uncertain results.
None of the people involved (besides some of the witnesses) have the slightest
idea of what they are talking about and have no clue about the history or even
the process of software development.
The software industry is being
strangled to death by the bureaucratic nightmare this man helped to construct
and his only response to complaints is the equivalent of:
Let
them eat cake!
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