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Change will come only if speak up. Here are some resources that may help you

Change will come only if speak up. Here are some resources that may help you

Posted Nov 24, 2008 22:12 UTC (Mon) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: Change will come only if speak up. Here are some resources that may help you by dwheeler
Parent article: FTC Announces First in Series of Hearings on Evolving Intellectual Property Marketplace

And there's the fantastic 2005 review of the USA's patent system by the FTC: http://www.ftc.gov/os/2003/10/innovationrpt.pdf

It's a 315-page review of the whole patent system, but the 153rd to 165th pages of the PDF are about software patents, and it's basically a laundry list of problems they cause.

My own bits of info and links are on my software patents page.


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