Right on, again, Michael! BTW, this thing of agreeing with everything you write is not a business thing; but I am still waiting for the check .
Both as an IP attorney and a history buff (especially IP history), I am totally opposed to business method, software, and the continuation process (so-called Llemelson methods). I also am very opposed to so-called "defensive" patents, the basis for "patent trolling").
I believe in IP as the founding fathers intended it, in fact, if you know the history you have to favor it; but it is very rarely practiced today (who besides me? Don't know!).
Right on, Michael. In college, I was ready to drop out, and certainly not interested in going beyond a bachelor's degree if I got that far. An "incompetent" professor (his first and last year of teaching) didn't get through all the material in our physics course, but left me with a deep and abiding love of physics and the scientific mathod - and caused me to end up with a doctorate! Condolezza Rice prevented that from becoming TWO doctorates, but that is another story.
BUT, on the subject of DRM, etc., my wife (the singer) was trying to promote a musician - but his CD was "not for distribution", so eventually that all went away. If he only knew how much that "not for distribution" CD cost him! She is too non-confrontive to tell him, or to let me tell him, but to (mis)quote Marlon Brando, "(He) coulda been a contender!"
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Business method patents
Both as an IP attorney and a history buff (especially IP history), I am totally opposed to business method, software, and the continuation process (so-called Llemelson methods). I also am very opposed to so-called "defensive" patents, the basis for "patent trolling").
I believe in IP as the founding fathers intended it, in fact, if you know the history you have to favor it; but it is very rarely practiced today (who besides me? Don't know!).
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DRM and other restrictions
BUT, on the subject of DRM, etc., my wife (the singer) was trying to promote a musician - but his CD was "not for distribution", so eventually that all went away. If he only knew how much that "not for distribution" CD cost him! She is too non-confrontive to tell him, or to let me tell him, but to (mis)quote Marlon Brando, "(He) coulda been a contender!"
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