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The last questionThe last questionPosted Nov 27, 2008 20:29 UTC (Thu) by NZheretic (guest, #409)Parent article: FTC Announces First in Series of Hearings on Evolving Intellectual Property Marketplace From February 2005 Questions to USPTO On-Line It has been nine years since the USPTO updated the Guidelines for Computer-Related Inventions ( http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/hearings/software/analysis/computer.html ). Since that time has the USPTO undertaken, commissioned or evaluated any studies on the effects that granting software related patents has had on the progress of science, useful arts and the software industry in general? If no such study has been performed or evaluated, why not? Can the USPTO point to any instances where the granting of software related patents has been an actual benefit to the progress of science, useful arts and the software industry in general? In a similar vein, can the USPTO point to any instances where the granting of business method related patents has been an actual benefit to the progress of science, useful arts and industry in general?The questions were again asked via the first post to the Open Source as Prior Art Mailing list which in small part led to the Peer to patent initiative. Also see What anti-software patent advocates want (In answer to Douglas Sorocco) and a paper on software patents.
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