Difference between revisions of "Patent Absurdity"

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Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system is a half-hour film about software patents, published on the 16^th of April, 2010.

The issues raised

Roughly in chronological order:

Bilski
Silly patents - many would call Bilski's patent, and others mentioned, trivial or silly
Business method patents (Bilski's patent is a business method, not a software idea)
Software is math (Ben Klemens explains how a "match making" patent, US6,735,568 is just math)
USA#Legislation
US Supreme Court
Analogies - if symphonies had been patented...
Software progress happens without patents

(see also: Case law in the USA)

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+==The court cases mentioned==
+:''(see also: [[Case law in the USA]])''
+* [[Diamond v. Diehr (1981, USA)]]
+* [[Parker v. Flook (1978, USA)]]
+* [[Gottschalk v. Benson (1972, USA)]]
+* [[In re Alappat (1994, USA)]]
+* [[State Street v. Signature Group (1999, USA)]]
+* [[In re Bilski (2008, USA)]]
+* [[Bilski v. Kappos (2009, USA)]]
 ==The cast==