Monday, August 8, 2011

Mark Cuban Says "End all Software and Process Patents"

Mark Cuban thinks the patent system is so out of whack that the only rational solution is to abolish the ability to file a "process" patent, or software patents.

"End all software patents," he says. "Don’t make them shorter, eliminate them."

"I have no problem with software being copyrightable just as it always has been," But process patents should be abolished. Some of you who have read such patents probably will agree.

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