Patent Absurdity Becomes...More Patent

Jul 17, 2008, 19:30 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Glyn Mody)

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""Our patent system for most innovations has become patently absurd. It's a disincentive at a time when we expect software and other technology companies to be the growth engine of the economy."

"What's particularly heartening is that those words appeared in the Wall Street Journal, hardly a bunch of sandal-wearing hippies.""

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