"The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced a new initiative on Tuesday to seek reform of the United States patent system. But conspicuously missing from the list is the most direct and obvious way to solve the problem: exclude software from patent protection altogether."
IV response to TAL piece critical of IV. Summary: "Haters gonna hate."
Nice little gloss on the TAL take on software patenting.
This is absolutely worth the hour. Intellectual Ventures really is that bad.
"The Global Responsibility License (GRL) makes it easier for patent holders to make a significant contribution to aiding vulnerable populations in the poorest countries because it is a modular license, created specifically for the use of IP for development purposes."