http://paidcontent.org/2011/11/02/419-why-tech-companies-want-engineers-to-ignore-patents-when-designing-prod/ The economics of digital content Sat, 18 May 2013 03:38:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2011/11/02/419-why-tech-companies-want-engineers-to-ignore-patents-when-designing-prod/#comment-86003 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:32:54 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/11/02/419-why-tech-companies-want-engineers-to-ignore-patents-when-designing-prod/#comment-86003 The average software related patent is absolutely useless to a practitioner, it’s written in legalese, designed to be as broadly applicable as possible, while also being as general and non-specific as possible to squeak through the USPTO.  The fact that so many innovations manage to somehow get created while ignoring the patent system until after the fact is a damning testimony to the uselessness of the current patent regime.

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