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Quality problems can happen in any category of patents, but the quality of software patents is particularly bad. | Quality problems can happen in any category of patents, but the quality of software patents is particularly bad. | ||
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| + | # Abstract algorithms can be described in so many ways | ||
| + | # Jargon and lack of tangible components can make a mundane software idea sound technical | ||
==The disclosed information is useless== | ==The disclosed information is useless== | ||
Revision as of 04:02, 24 June 2009
Quality problems can happen in any category of patents, but the quality of software patents is particularly bad.
Possible reasons
- Abstract algorithms can be described in so many ways
- Jargon and lack of tangible components can make a mundane software idea sound technical
The disclosed information is useless
(Maybe this should be a separate page/argument, but let's wait until this page grows first.)
Examples
- Unbelievable software patents
- FFII's webshop which uses 20 ideas patented in the EU
- Microsoft developer's internal comments about his own patents indecipherable by anyone but a patent attorney
- Some Kodak patents
