And only twenty years late. – small dead animals

Patent trolls may find the future unwelcoming.
About bloody time, these scum have been the bane of developers since they discovered that describing something incorrectly allowed them to profit from license.

8 Replies to “And only twenty years late.”

As someone who has several patents, I can only cheer this ruling. Many “intellectual property” companies are merely payoff chasers who launch parasitical law-suites which cost more money to defend against than the pay-off.

I am the inventor of three software patents, and I welcome the day that software patents are gone.
In truth, the term “software patent” is a misnomer. Nobody patents software. You can only copyright software. What is patented are algorithms which are intended to be implemented as software running on a computer.
I can see little or no evidence that software patents encourage innovation. In fact, I know they inhibit it, for few people are going to spend time improving an algorithm which a competitor has patented.
The day that software patents are overturned is the day I can use ideas which I invented years ago, but which are now held by a company I don’t work for.

Well, until these software companies get over the idea of conditional ‘licence’ to use rather than selling it, they can take a hike. If they get scammed by the trolls, it’s only what’s coming to them.

Of COURSE software is “intellectual property”, it doesn’t take more than a 6th grade education to recognize that. It is definitely NOT a patentable object. Duh !
Oh, wait, that’s right … this is the highly politicized so-called U.S. Justice system inhabited by an army of leftwing apparatchiks deployed to “transform” the Constitution (and English Law) into some hellish Socialist Sharia.
A few more Supremes seated by the likes of HER … and were past DOOMED. Goodbye sweet America … you were BEAUTIFUL. You gave hope and prosperity to BILLIONS of your residents and foreigners.

Good to finally see some sanity in this area. I’ve always been opposed to zoftware patents as these are ideas. I l8ke the use of 1st Amendment to invalidate them as software represents speaking to a computer. No one could be sued for relaying code claimed to be subject to patent protection to another person. Thus, executing it on a computer should deserve the same protection.
Some tears I bought a book on DES. It’s illegal to export strong encryption from the US. Howeve, this book which contains complete source code of the DES algorithm is ptotected by 1st Amendmwnt. Nice to see same reasoning being used to eliminate software patents.