Patent Law

it argued that intellectual property is now being used to squelch rather than promote innovation. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/05/BUQP1LQN3V.DTL#ixzz1cygSNsTB
Published on November 6, 2011

A perspective on the issue from Google.

You can look at the development of the software industry and see a point when (software wasn’t being patented) and it was a period of intense innovation. You didn’t see Microsoft’s first software patent until 1988.

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