At the moment, the patent system is seriously malfunctioning. The high volume of low quality, poorly defined patents, particularly in the software and IT industries, is catalyzing the explos... Read more
Despite Prior Art Going Back Over A Century Jon Wilson alerts us to yet another unfortunate casualty of our screwed up patent system, led by our clueless US Patent Office. Luma Labs,... Read more
The patent system in both Europe and the United States is the biggest threat to innovation in the world today At the risk of stating the obvious, I’ll say this right up front: The patent sys... Read more
DWG pointed us to what appears to be Mark Lemley’s latest (and I’ll caveat that with the point that Lemley is crazy prolific, so he may have written something else more recently)... Read more
Image via Wikipedia While many people (especially politicians and the press) like to equate patents and innovation (often falsely suggesting that fewer patents means less innovation), studie... Read more
For many years, we’ve discussed how the Bayh-Dole Act, which created incentives for universities to patent the (often federally-funded) research results of professors, has been a disma... Read more
Image by jontintinjordan via Flickr Patent nonsense DO PATENTS help or hinder innovation? Instinctively, they would seem a blessing, especially for backroom tinkerers. Patenting an idea give... Read more