EFF Politely Asks PTO to Stop Issuing So Many Crappy Software Patents

Re:EFF Politely Asks PTO to Stop Issuing So Many Crappy Soft... by icebraining on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @06:16AM (#5563624)

Swipe-to-unlock is an obvious transfer of a well-known physical concept (sliding the keyboard to unlock, as many Nokia phones had) to the touch screen.

It's a great example of another big problem with software patents - the idea that adding "... on a computer" makes it somehow brand new.

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Re:EFF Politely Asks PTO to Stop Issuing So Many Crappy Soft... by noptic on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @08:11AM (#5563955)

Simple sollution: Only grant patents on real sollutions. If you can solve the same problem in another way it is a independent work. Do we realy want a world with 1 browser 1 OS and 1 pragramming alnguage?

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Re:EFF Politely Asks PTO to Stop Issuing So Many Crappy Soft... by icebraining on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @08:33AM (#5564040)

Patents on real solutions are called "copyright".

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