By Stephen Shankland
Published: Wednesday 16 February 2005
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CPK Smithies
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UK
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Visionary
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How are software patents different from any other? I've not yet seen one argument that convincingly distinguishes between innovation in software and innovation in any other field. If patents are so terrible for the software industry, why didn't they prove equally terrible in the field of (say) mechanical engineering?
So in the ' real' world, How does a startup get th...
Frank Smith
I doubt HP or anyone else who has invested in pate...
Richard Gallafent
Richard Gallafent is right about patents for brigh...
Alfred Reading
Seems like they're getting pretty blatent at abusi...
Anonymous
How are software patents different from any other?...
CPK Smithies
CPK Smithies asks why patents did not cause proble...
Alfred Reading
Just to deal with Mr Reading's point: left-hand sc...
CPK Smithies
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