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A Sun Position Paper on Software Patents, 2006 ~pj | 361 comments | Create New Account
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A Sun Position Paper on Software Patents, 2006 ~pj
Authored by: belzecue on Sunday, May 20 2012 @ 03:25 AM EDT
Another paper referencing Sun's Position Paper:

NO REST FOR THE WEARY
Changing Patterns of Software, Databases and
Their Intellectual Property Protection
Dec 2008

by Dale Myers

http://open.umich.edu/sites/default/files/PubPol688-
FinalPaper-Student-Myers.doc

"One reasonable solution would be to adopt an
interoperability exception to software patents. This will
require a very narrow and specific definition of
interoperability. However, since it is not a completely new
concept in the software world that seems possible. In fact,
Sun Microsystems has proposed language including words like
“indispensable” to qualify the exception for copying or
reverse engineering a program.1 Another real possibility
stems from the recent Bilski decision. Interoperability
could be determined to be a condition of transformation in
that a process that enables two disparate systems to
interact is indeed transformative. Both changes would
enable developers to use existing software to create
interoperable without fear of infringement promoting
innovation and the distribution of software everyone can
use."

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