Patent system is flawed

Posted Mar 3, 2010 14:58 UTC (Wed) by cma (guest, #49905)
Parent article: Apple's patent attack

It seems non of US politicians has yet taken any action to stop this harassment to the free market. It seems everyone should have a iPlone and a shitty mobile operational system... Taht really sucks for us, US outsiders...

Patent system is flawed

Posted Mar 6, 2010 5:07 UTC (Sat) by mgh (guest, #5696) [Link] (3 responses)

There is no point blaming companies - they are responding to the legal patent framework created by government. If they don't patent and defend, some other company will patent the concepts they are using.

Apple/IBM/Microsoft/Nokia etc need to file patents and defend them - they have few other choices. Look at Blackberry vs NTP and many many other cases.

Software patents are not contributing to innovation - and hence their reason for existence is flawed; it is on this point that energy should be focused.

Patent system is flawed

Posted Mar 8, 2010 23:58 UTC (Mon) by leoc (guest, #39773) [Link]

In as much as the fact that companies that benefit the most from the existing situation also happen to be the ones who fight to retain it then, yes, actually, we can blame them.

Patent system is flawed

Posted Mar 9, 2010 19:44 UTC (Tue) by DOT (subscriber, #58786) [Link]

Any company that decides on its own to go nuclear, is to blame. The "defensive patents" argument does not hold when you start filing lawsuits.

Patents to protect you?

Posted Mar 11, 2010 12:27 UTC (Thu) by forthy (guest, #1525) [Link]

If you look at RIM vs. NTP, you see that filing patents to protect yourself ain't gonna help. Not against patent trolls who have no product. Invalidating invalid patents ain't gonna help, either, since in that case, the patent in question was actually found invalid - 3 month after the judge closed the case.