Comment Re:Patent Office = Hopelessly Befuddled (Score 1) 159
Interesting read, I was not aware that software patents were reviewed by programmers (at least in the British Patent Office) but I would still argue that many granted are so patently (pun intended) obvious that they simply do not have merit.
It is a difficult subject and the current standards for granting patents were never formulated with software/computers in mind. Further down the page is the statement -
@@@ A computer program is a linguistic work and a virtual machine at the same time. Neither copyright nor patent law were designed with computer programs in mind. Some scholars and politicians have therefore argued for a "Third Paradigm between patent and copyright law", also called specially tailored right or ius sui generis. Others have called abstract-logical ideas a "nobody's land of intellectual property" and demanded that it should be kept free of all property claims. @@@
On this I would wholeheartedly agree.
It is a difficult subject and the current standards for granting patents were never formulated with software/computers in mind. Further down the page is the statement -
@@@ A computer program is a linguistic work and a virtual machine at the same time. Neither copyright nor patent law were designed with computer programs in mind. Some scholars and politicians have therefore argued for a "Third Paradigm between patent and copyright law", also called specially tailored right or ius sui generis. Others have called abstract-logical ideas a "nobody's land of intellectual property" and demanded that it should be kept free of all property claims. @@@
On this I would wholeheartedly agree.
