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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 07:31 PM EST |
I think we're saying the same thing, here. (and the question was not that of
inquiry, but simply following Mr. Kappos ill-proposed logic with a bit of
sarcasm)
Our patent law was perverted by a judge that overstepped his bounds by expanding
the same to include something that it was designed to NOT include (ie. software
or any other mathematical algorithm). This perversion has the effect, intended
or otherwise, of killing off our smaller competitors and slowly bringing
frostbite to our country's ingenuity as a whole. If this does not stop, our
ingenuity (or should I say, "What remains of it") will cease it's
present functionality and will serve as nothing more than a cold and bitter
reminder of what we once were.
The notion that we should wait to see if that perversion can be undone by an act
that doesn't undo the perversion is absurd. But, let's suppose that the act
could eventually bring about a new revision of patent law that DOES do away with
software patents specifically so that no future judge confuses software for
something that is NOT math... What good is that?
Being that there is a more immediate need here, I really don't think that taking
our wet matches and "shutting up about it" is going to do us any
good.
Being that the judicial has botched this beyond it's capacity to repair it,
legislation needs to do something about this, something substantial and
something soon. But legislation won't do their job if we place our hopes in wet
matches, remaining silent all the while.
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