The Wall Street Journal writes that “Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation“. Finally, the message is reaching the establishment. Latest example: Channel Intelligence is suing everybody (if they’re small) for wishlists in a database. Sheesh. How does the USPTO let this kind …
I’m not usually a fan of Microsoft, but they presented some very sensible proposals in a lecture to the American Enterprise Institute.
IBM is pledging 500 patents to Open Source. How cool. This is an extraordinary turn-round in attitude since IBM was forced to unbundle its software, and perhaps a reason that they have thrived where DEC, Unisys and others have not.
Bill Gates’ statement on CNET that “There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don’t think that those incentives should exist” …
Brad DeLong writes about The Eighteenth-Century Rollback of Intellectual Property and quotes from “The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century” John Brewer (1997): As one of the judges put it… ‘the very matter and content of… …