Questions like this will always founder if you equate software patents with real inventions. As Joel Spolsky said, there are maybe two ideas in software per year that are really worth patenting (actually, he didn't say "per year" so I was being generous).
I wrote an article [1] about this seven years ago! It was cited in an amicus brief to SCOTUS in the CLS Bank case. Nothing has changed since then.
We should realize that our companies' top management and the professional societies are not on our side on this. Engineers themselves will have to get it done.
I wrote an article [1] about this seven years ago! It was cited in an amicus brief to SCOTUS in the CLS Bank case. Nothing has changed since then.
We should realize that our companies' top management and the professional societies are not on our side on this. Engineers themselves will have to get it done.
[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2399580