I'm hoping that 4-5 nations look at what the US has done and
realise that if they accept software patents, it will kill their domestic
software industries stone dead.
That's a very puzzling line, as
the problem only has this magnitude and severity in the US. The rest of the
world by and large isn't playing the USPTO game on software patents.
For
example, the EU admits the possibility of software patents but only within
narrow constraints, and those constraints effectively block the patenting of
algorithms and methods such as Oracle's blessed '104 and '520 which cover just
ordinary mechanisms of software engineering. Thus, the problem we're seeing in
court today doesn't exist in Europe, despite the megacorps accumulating patent
mountains over there as well.
It's very much a US problem, exacerbated by
the "everyone must sue everyone else" cultural phenomenon which also is largely
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