More Evidence That US Patent Laws Need To Change

Just a quick update on what some other people are saying about how US patent laws are strangling innovation. Check out this interview with Alan Cox. Take a look at his response to question 12 concerning Microsoft and intellectual property:

12) Do you share some people's fear of Microsoft's threats (concerning patents and intellectual property)?

"I don't think they are the biggest danger. As Microsoft has been finding out recently it is the patent trolls, and organisations with buried patents in interesting areas that are the biggest threat in the USA. The real answer to that problem however is to pull the USA back into line with the majority of the world which simply does not recognize patents on software but respects them as literary works subject to copyright law. Also therefore we have to make sure the continuing US attempts to spread bogus patent law into the EU are defeated."

It appears as though I’m not the only one that sees this is a problem.

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