Re: ``Software floods the patent office'' (review)

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From: Skip Montanaro
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1991 16:27

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In article <ROCKWELL.91Oct7204450@socrates.umd.edu> rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell) writes:

   The difference between patents and copyrights is that patents are
   expensive to obtain.  A direct mapping of GNU or FSF onto patents
   would take a lot of dollars.

It may take a lot of money to successfully get a patent, however, it might
not take much money to write a patent application that is sufficiently
complete/complex/worthy that it can't be trivially rejected by the USPTO. If
that proves true, how about a little civil disobedience? Flood the USPTO
with tons of patent applications, effectively rendering the system useless.

--
Skip (montanaro@crd.ge.com)

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