Sept 3, 2003

Free Software Licensing in Context

Software patents considered harmful

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• Patent filings are completely opaque
• Courts say that only lawyers can determine whether an existing patent covers a new device
• Patent examiners do not understand software
  • IBM and Unisys both granted patents on Lampel-Ziv-Welch compression
  
  

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