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Judge blasts colleagues for defying Supreme Court, allowing financial patent (arstechnica.com)
40 points by iProject on July 14, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



Why is it taking the US so long to figure out that patents on business methods, abstractions and software are a disaster waiting to happen? Even parts of their own justice system are starting to understand the consequences.

Is it that hard to understand from first principles, like much of the rest of the world has, instead of waiting until the full irreversible burden is felt in legal, industrial and public bodies? Or is the GDP service churn over nothing actually innovative worth the deferrment of so much pain into the future?

Talking about kicking the can down the road...


Patent troll script:

  1) Find an excepted business process that has been used for literally centuries.
  2) Create a patent but include the words, "on a computer" or "on a computer network".
  3) Profit.
What a stupid system.


Yet another business method patent and the expected "wtf!?".


The patent does sound very bad indeed, but I think politicians will get a lot more worked up over a patent that can affect the US financial industry, than one that affects the tech industry.


Well this is a very odd story.

For those that don't know NAB who owns half of this alleged patent troll is one of Australia's "big 4" banks and pulls in over $5B a year. It is hardly in need of cash.

Why on earth it is messing about in the US is beyond me.


"Why on earth it is messing about in the US is beyond me."

Some ironic scope there. There are a fair few people who might wonder why the US is messing about, well, everywhere. :)




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