Software patents produce legal uncertainty

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Software patents are a source of legal uncertainty. Any way to abolish a portion of software patents will help reduce legal uncertainty.

MPEG-LA claims that it's not possible to write any video playing software without infringing at least one of their patents.^{[reference needed]}

Can you help? need to dig up that quote about how e-commerce websites have 10,000?? patents to try to avoid

Do imperfect solutions increase uncertainty?

The scope of patentability is currently uncertain, and software patents are a source of legal uncertainty, so any change that goes in the direction reducing or abolishing software patents will reduce uncertainty.

Related pages on ESP Wiki

• Slow process creates uncertainty
• Statistics, categorising, and counting patents
• All businesses are targets
• Software is too abstract, software patent quality is terrible
• The disclosure is useless
• Infringement is unavoidable

External links

• Ignoring Patents, 3 July 2007, Mark A. Lemley - "both researchers and companies in component industries simply ignore patents." - which means that every patent is uncertainty