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January 12, 2005
Intellectual property, part IX
eWeek has an article about EU MEPs working to prevent the software patent system from coming to Europe:
Companies such as Red Hat Inc. and MySQL AB say that such patents, already common in the United States, are of more use to large corporations with patent stockpiles than to developers seeking to protect genuine innovations.
IBM is cited as a major supporter of legislation in favor of software patents for Europe, and is apparently giving away 500 patents to confuse the unwary. No doubt many other large software development corporations (or at least their lawyers) would also support such legal instruments to protect their intellectual property.
Posted by Mark at January 12, 2005 02:39 PM