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MS's chief patent counsel Eppenauer: ‘We believe our patent laws have served the country well
Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 08:48 AM EST

Evidence based policy (EBP): What a refreshing thought! It could completely transform policy on a broad range of issues. It must be a very frightening concept to incumbents though. They will be an obstacle to change.

Add to that a thought that crossed my mind the other day when reading about the US election coverage. I think the principal candidates, Obama and Romney spent what was it, 1 or 2 billion dollars? Whatever, it wasn't that much that it is inconceivable that campaign financing be paid by the government instead of the private sector. Then with one fell swoop, politicians would no longer be beholden to special interests. That would change everything over night! Of course it would be complicated to work out - who gets subsidized and by how much - very complicated. However, the rewards for the effort would pay back a thousand fold.

So now combine that notion with evidence based policy - suddenly it's a whole new world! All the "Occupy" protests in the world could never bring about such a positive transformation. A concept to die for? Are you prepared?

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I think Mr. Eppenauer slipped in his stated beliefs
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 10:21 AM EST

From the actual newspick article:

But we do believe that there are tremendous technical contributions from software to computing and technology, and that software-related or computer-implemented inventions are as worthy of patent protection as any form of technology or science.
I think he slipped up there. He states:
Our view is that very abstract concepts should not be patentable. That's actually the law and the Supreme Court said so last year.
I don't think that's the view he actually wants to hold - just that the Supreme Court is getting to the point of making that quite clear to those unwilling to listen.

Just to help Bart Eppenauer understand my point:

    The telescope is the technology!
    The motion of the stars and being able to see them via optics is the science!
Unless someone wants to redefine the term science to somehow apply to a device then math (a science) is still not patentable anymore then abstract concepts.

RAS

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