Patent absurdity

IEEE Spectrum - Tập 39 Số 8 - Trang 48-49 - 2002
S.J. Frank1
1Testa, Hurwitz and Thibeault

Tóm tắt

A growing chorus of critics in the popular press has chastised software developers, Web-application designers, and gene-patenting biotechnologists, among others, for securing patent rights that-it is said-subvert the system. The patent office has been cracking down. The most notable reforms affecting bad patents are statutory changes.

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#Technological innovation #Space technology #Power system protection #Software testing #Software design #Cloning #Consumer electronics #Telecommunications #Internet #Pathogens