[News] FFII Laughs at the Stupidity of Software Patents
Roy Schestowitz
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FFII and EPO announce "Binaries-As-Prior-Art"
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| After years of confidential work, the European Patent Office (EPO) and the
| Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) today announce a
| radical way to improve software patent quality: Binaries-As-Prior-Art, or
| BAPA. BAPA combines a database of billions of compiled computer programs
| ("binaries") with a powerful Cloud search engine that can find any invention
| in microseconds.
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http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/FFII_and_EPO_announce_%22Binaries-As-Prior-Art%22
Ciaran O'Riordan (LP09)
http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Ciaran_O'Riordan_(LP09)
Ciaran O'Riordan: End Software Patents
http://ciaran.compsoc.com/esp-boston-2009.html
Recent:
Software Patents and Open-Source
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| Does our current system of patents, especially software patents, "promote the
| progress of science and the useful arts?" The answer is obvious. It does not.
| Is it obvious enough for the Supreme Court to go against the wishes of
| the "intellectual property nomenklatura" of this country, with their
| fictitious billions of dollars on their balance sheets? Maybe. We'll see.
| Another interesting question is this. On the day after all those patents are
| invalidated, what will the stock market do? It will be interesting to see....
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http://xoatlicue.blogspot.com/2009/02/software-patents-and-open-source.html
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