Patent Madness - (was: Re: Patent issued for Web caching)
David Farber <[email protected]>
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Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <[email protected]> Date: October 20, 2006 3:23:37 PM EDT To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Patent Madness - (was: Re: [IP] Patent issued for Web caching) Dave, It's quite clear how so many wacko patents are issued. The USPTO is understaffed, out of its depth in technical and business matters, and has gotten little useful guidance from the courts or (insert guffaws here) Congress. The whole area of business method and software patents is utterly insane. And it has *been* this way for a long time. I wrote about this in "Wired News" four years ago tomorrow ( "Stop the Patent Process Madness": http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55831,00.html ). Matters have only really gotten worse since then. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein [email protected] or [email protected] Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, IOIC - International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net Co-Founder, CIFIP - California Initiative For Internet Privacy - http://www.cifip.org Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com - - - > From: Brett Glass <[email protected]> > Date: October 20, 2006 2:55:14 PM EDT > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: Patent issued for Web caching > One can only wonder how this patent possibly could > have issued. > --Brett Glass, LARIAT.NET