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Stop talking about "Software Patents" as being special

Stop talking about "Software Patents" as being special

Posted Nov 8, 2012 19:35 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Stop talking about "Software Patents" as being special by k3ninho
Parent article: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired)

It also seems like something that the troll companies could game easily, with all the lawyers they are paying, they could easily scrape together enough money to pay one developer part time and claim that they are working to produce a product.


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Stop talking about "Software Patents" as being special

Posted Nov 8, 2012 22:43 UTC (Thu) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]

I seem to recall an article, in which one such company was featured, where the trick of feeding the easily-impressed amongst the media the impression of genuine, non-litigious work being done appeared to be already well-established, eliciting observations that "these people are really inventing stuff - they have people in lab coats with test tubes!"

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