How some people doesn't seem to see the current patent system as a threat to a healthy society and business methods is really impossible for me to believe. Check american newspapers, almost everyday you can see a patent claim sueing over really ridiculous technologies which one will find normal to use. Another case which caim to my audience this week is Intel claiming patents around making CPUs. Isn't it a good example as patent can be abused to destroy competition and overthrow the market? It isn't only in information technologies (such as software patents), but also in medical and drug research, even diseases. Can we patent a disease and make somebody pay for getting it?
With IPRED intel can not only sue competition, they can freeze their bank accounts or even shutdown a whole branch. Isn't it obvious what is going on?
- source Inquirer-
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