Potential Progress On Dealing With Software Patents
I woke up this morning to a great article by Nick Grossman at Union Square Ventures on The Patent Quality Improvement Act . Nick does a great job of describing the software patent problem, suggesting several solutions, and explaining how the Patent Quality Improvement Act helps the increasingly dismal situation around software patents. Nick has a great paragraph from Mark Lemley of Stanford Law School that describes a powerful solution to part of the problem – that of eliminating “functional claiming.” Regarding functional claiming, Mark says: ...