Re: [tlug] Patents gone wrong?

["Michael Engel" <mkengel@example.com>]

On 8/28/06, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> but the biggest issue I have
> with software patents is that patent authorities do not seem to have
> the ability to avoid giving frivolous patents, or correctly checking
> prior art.


Exactly - that is the problem with patents.
They have the ability but apparently not the political willingness.
This can only be changed if the public is pressuring the PTO and the congress.

Btw. that's exactly the point of Greg Aharonian.

Michael