Star Microsoft-Beating Company Sues Apple, Google, Etc.
Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Tue 6th Oct 2009 21:43 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Law and Order The patent wars rage on. Eolas, a company that before won US$585 million from Microsoft in 2003 in a suit that challenged the use of ActiveX and AJAX, is now after twenty-three separate companies allegedly because their precious patent was spoiled by all of them.
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galvanash
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2006-01-25

1. Copyright is one aspect. But it doesn't protect someone from copying your idea, which is the point of a patent.


Thats the problem with your point of view on this. Patents do not and are not supposed to protect ideas. Patently law specifically _disallows_ patenting of an idea. You can only patent inventions. The issue boils down to whether you consider software an idea or an invention. That gets fuzzy - there is a legal definition of invention and its applicability to software is debatable imo.

Regardless, I agree there is a problem with patents overall, not just software. But software particularly seems to amplify the problem.

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