Statements from venture capitalists
This list is just the vocal venture capitalists against software patents.
Contents
Brad Feld
[...] patents on software are a massive tax on and retardant of innovation in the US.[1]
Art Reisman
Patents should never be awarded to: 1) ideas; 2) processes, recipes, software programs.
BION I'm imrpessed! Cool post!
Laura Creighton
Software Patents have not protected the Small inventor from the Big Company -- instead they have made legal expertise an additional barrier to entry into the software business. And they scare investors like me out of investing in software businesses. In the United States there are plenty of companies whose fervent desire is to become successful enough to make their founders comfortable -- and no more successful. They are trying very hard to remain 'too small to be worth suing'. This does not benefit Society either.
Fred Wilson
- How Patent Trolls Are A Tax On Innovation
- Why Patent Trolls Are A Tax On Innovation (continued)
- More Patent Nonsense
- Permissionless Innovation and Patents
- Enough Is Enough, 1 June 2011
- Investors Speaking Up About Patents Harming Innovation, 7 June 2011, Techdirt - mentions and quotes Fred Wilson
Brad Burnham
Jason Mendelson
- The End of Software Patents?, August 31st, 2009
- 76% of Venture Capitalists Believe that Software Patents are Important (NOT!), May 6th, 2010
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Brad Feld on software patents
- Which sectors are for and against
- 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey
- Statements and quotes
External links
- Software Patents: the Investor's and Venture Capitalist's perspective, by FFII
- Declaration By Venture Investors and Venture-Funded Companies on Software Patents
- A PR mentioning that the NoSoftwarePatents campaign is supported by Benchmark Capital and Danny Rimer, a partner at Index Ventures
- [1] Good read on the very same issues.
