Patent laws were created for things made of wood and metal with maybe a pane of glass here or a leather hinge there.
How well do such laws apply to “things” made of ones and zeroes?
Big companies with good lawyers are eagerly “gaming” the patent and copyright laws. Google deals with the people who “game” their search results by revising to meet such attacks at the end of each month. I wish our government were half as vigilant.
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1 Steve Pomeroy // Feb 28, 2004 at 10:58 am
The only problem I would have with a government shaped after Google is that it would be a benevolent dictatorship. Now, if they could keep Google’s good sense and attention to appealing to both non-commercial and commericial interests then I’d agree.