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The Point of Diminishing Returns...

Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 08:20 PM EDT

Oh, lastly, the lawyers aren't exactly wrong in extending
patents to software. Differences of opinion exist, but I
find the legal arguments in favor of software patents
modestly more persuasive than the arguments against them.

The most persuasive argument I've seen against software
patents is that they're strongly negative-sum on average.
That one's more likely to encourage change in the patent
landscape. But, it is more likely to favor incremental (yet
large) narrowing of allowable scope than complete
elimination.

--Erwin

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