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Originally Posted by pricecw
I agree that the Patent trolls are a huge problem, and that was my point about obvious patents and those that should never have made it through the patent office.
I think we need patent reform badly, and if we got rid of the trolls, and the extensions given so a patent can remain un-issued, but in the office until the corp/person decides to push it (submarine patents), I think the process is in essence not a horrid one. Create something (physical representation), patent it, it is deemed non-obvious and novel, get 14yrs to exploit it before others can build on it.
Things I would like to see removed from patents, gene's, animals, drugs, plants, etc. Patenting a plant you find in the jungle so you can exploit it is in my opinion criminal. Finally, algorithms and software. Those are protected by copyright (actually, some recent Supreme court rulings have severely limited software patents).
And to be clear, I have patents in my name (although they are assigned to others), and creative works whose license depends on copyright law to work. However, I think both need reform and balance brought back. If my creative works were to go out of copyright because the term was re-verted to 14yrs, it would not stop me from continuing to create.
--Carl
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Plant patents are need to protect the work of hybridizers. Hybridizing a new, successful variety of plant is not a trivial task.....