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Posted in America, Patents at 3:51 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: A billionaire calls for the end of CII patents, which helps show that people at all levels of society want those patents to just die
Mark Cuban is a controversial figure which we wrote about before, also in relation to patents. Whatever we may think of him as a businessman, he has just done something commendable by publicly calling for the end of software patents. To quote a portion.
=> wrote about before | in relation to patents | ↺ publicly calling for the end of software patents
- End all software patents. Don’t make them shorter, eliminate them.I have no problem with software being copyrightable just as it always has been. That is more than enough protection and keeps enough lawyers un-gainfully employed.
Cuban is a controversial person with high reputation, so the corporate media echoed his views and others paraphrased him by writing: “According to billionaire internet entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban, the chaos created by software and process patents has some very big negative effects: it’s costing the U.S. economy jobs and spurring a “Patent Arms Race” that will inevitably impact consumer prices. But he’s proposing a solution: eliminate the process patents that are used to ‘patent’ software.”
=> ↺ echoed his views | ↺ others paraphrased him
Let us hope that Mr. Cuban puts his money where his mouth is. █
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