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Revision as of 07:07, 12 October 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
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
