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Google: Time to ditch our current software patent system?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 12:22 PM EDT
Drop the details about software, and that might get through.

Run the "Software is speech" seperately. Probably as an amendment to
the "Free Speech includes books" stuff.

Make the working the same, and voila, yet another set of laws banning software
patents that will be ignored by trolls with mountains of cash.

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First hurdle
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 01:14 PM EDT
The first hurdle will be, as you say, " ... is to get Congress to
...". If you are very wealthy, your Representive
and Senators make actually listen to you. After that, the
ball may continue to roll.

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Speaking of Software Patents: Shield Act
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 01:59 PM EDT

I noticed in the recent article on the Shield Act a comment left by someone that thinks the Shield Act is to:

shielding large invention thieves from small would be competitors
Love the wording. At first I initially read it as "shielding large companies against small" but that's not what it actually says upon closer reading.

I thought that an interesting angle till I got down to the pro-software-patent meme:

It all means one thing: "we're using your invention and we're not going to pay or stop."
And I realized the opponents of the Shield Act - those that will be most negatively affected, the trolls - are martialing their arguments against the Act.

So one of the arguments they'll be presenting is that the Shield Act will only protect "innovation thieves". No actual explanation as to why it's bad to have the plaintiff pay the defendants costs when it's clear the plaintiff didn't have a case. Just that it's bad.

Meanwhile... it's dressed up as something triggered by non-American multi-nationals:

The fact is, many of the large multinationals who defame inventors in this way themselves make no products in the US or create any American jobs and it is their continued blatant theft which makes it impossible for the true creators to do so.
Love the irony:

Have no actual valid reason to say why it's bad to make a plaintiff that has no case pay for the defendant's costs. But try and draw on American Patriotism to try and stop something that will affect lawsuits initiated by Americans against Americans.

RAS

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Google: Time to ditch our current software patent system?
Authored by: gfim on Wednesday, August 22 2012 @ 01:07 AM EDT
I believe that I esposed a similar idea here some time ago.

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Graham

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