Posted on 09/03/2009 9:05:53 PM PDT by Born Conservative
Despite a potentially crippling patent injunction against selling Word that Microsoft is battling on appeal, Microsoft, via a senior lawyer, is nevertheless calling for a global patent system "to make it easier and faster for corporations to enforce their intellectual property rights around the world". Yep--despite the big hit they just took due to i4i's patent, Microsoft is concerned about the "unmanageable backlogs and interminable pendency periods" of national patent systems, which have 3.5 million patents pending. You hear that right--Microsoft things more is "needed to be done to allow corporations to protect their intellectual property." What, do they want i4i to be able to get sextuple, instead of just triple, damages? To jail Microsoft board members?
Microsoft's lawyer repeats the tired old bunk about patents being necessary to promote innovation, yada yada -- "By facing the challenges, realizing a vision, overcoming political barriers, and removing procedural obstacles we can build a global patent system that will promote innovation, enrich public knowledge, encourage competition and drive economic growth and employment."
Two good things about this: (a) a global system would, possibly, reduce the number of patent lawyers; and (b) I was feeling sorry for Microsoft over the Word injunction, but now don't need to anymore.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.mises.org ...
Microsoft’s lawyer repeats the tired old bunk about patents being necessary to promote innovation, yada yada “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;”
yeah before anyone responds...it is up to congress to grant those rights, not some global system
The Chinese, etc. would pilfer classified technology and use
an international patent and the international community
to stop our use.
Think of the “who invented it first” suits that would
be brought on. NO!
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