Andy Grove on software patents

Andy Grove is Chairman of Intel.

Keynote at the Global Tech Summit 2003

These have disappeared from BSA's site, but archive.org has copies:

• http://web.archive.org/web/20070413175022/http://www.globaltechsummit.net/press/GTS_AndyGrove.pdf
• http://www.globaltechsummit.net/press/AndyGrove.pdf (archive)

Same flaws as derivatives

• 2009-05-02: Grove Says Patent System May Have Same Flaws as Derivatives

2009, use em or lose'm

Grove suggested a "use em or lose'm" policy for patents. This strategy would indeed reduce the number of patent trolls.