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Submitted by olsmeister on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @09:54PM

olsmeister writes: On Tuesday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced its "Defend Innovation" project, which includes seven proposals for software patent reform. These proposals include things like shorter coverage for software patents, and a requirement to demonstrate running code for each claim in the patent.

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This approach may encounter many problems (Score:2)

by Taco Cowboy ( 5327 ) writes:

Let's say the patent demonstration code is in C
Can I implement something similar in assembly language, and thus, circumvent the software patent?
Plus, I think EFF will meet with stiff opposition from the powerful association of patent lawyers - they are obviously exerting giga-profits from all the patent-related court cases, and they (the patent lawyers) ain't gonna let this goose that lay the golden eggs get slaughtered by EFF
Really Weak Effort, EFF (Score:2)

by Jane Q. Public ( 1010737 ) writes:

Even the courts lately have been seriously questioning the validity of software patents, and EFF calls for "limiting their duration"???

Dudes. I am a big EFF supporter and fan, but that's really lame.

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