ESP Wiki is looking for moderators and active contributors!
Difference between revisions of "Patent Absurdity"
Steelpillow (talk | contribs) (Patent Absurdity home page) |
(:''To help make subtitles in other languages, see Patently Absurd/Subtitles.'') |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{navbox}} | {{navbox}} | ||
| + | |||
| + | :''To help make subtitles in other languages, see [[Patently Absurd/Subtitles]].'' | ||
| + | |||
'''Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system''' is a half-hour film about [[software patents]], published on the 16<sup>th</sup> of April, 2010. | '''Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system''' is a half-hour film about [[software patents]], published on the 16<sup>th</sup> of April, 2010. | ||
Revision as of 13:31, 20 April 2010
- To help make subtitles in other languages, see Patently Absurd/Subtitles.
Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system is a half-hour film about software patents, published on the 16th of April, 2010.
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
- Analogies - if symphonies had been patented...
- Software progress happens without patents
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
- James Bessen
- Dan Bricklin
- Peter Brown
- Mishi Choudhary
- Ben Klemens
- Timothy B. Lee
- Eben Moglen
- Ciarán O'Riordan
- Dan Ravicher
- Karen Sandler
- Richard Stallman
- Rob Tiller
- 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
- Patent Absurdity home page from where you can watch or download the film.
- The Bilski hearing transcript, as text
Reviews
- Darkness Visible: Making Patent Absurdity Patent, by Glyn Moody
