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Revision as of 10:20, 16 April 2010
Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system is a half-hour film about software patents, to be published soon.
Contents
The issues raised
Roughly in chronological order:
- Bilksi
- 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
The court cases mentioned
The cast
- James Bessen
- Dan Bricklin
- Peter Brown
- Mishi Choudhary
- Ben Klemens
- Timothy B. Lee
- Eben Moglen
- Ciarán O'Riordan
- Dan Ravicher
- Karen Sandler
- Richard Stallman
- Jesse Vincent
- Mark Webbink
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- List of recordings and transcripts
- Boston swpat conference 2006 videos
- Audio-video patents
- Ogg Theora
External links
Reviews
- Darkness Visible: Making Patent Absurdity Patent, by Glyn Moody