Re:A patent lawsuit against GNOME
by bubblethink on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @01:34PM
(#21073056)
Probably not. Government granted monopolies only make sense when there are government forced delays as in drug approval. And even there, there are a lot of problematic cases.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
In addition to banning software patents, a positive step could be to prove that developing the patent required substantial investment and would not be feasible without the patent -- as is the case with (current) drug development and laws. That would at least raise the bar and burden of proof of social benefit to the one filing.