Intellectual Property And Computer Software: The Ongoing Controversy

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Business

 

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Rogelio W

 

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January 9, 2017

 

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University

 

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On one side there are the large, mainly U.S. based corporations, such as IBM, Microsoft and Apple, who dominate the software market and have traditionally been are advocates for strong intellectual property protection for software. On the other side there is the open-source/free software movement who believe software should not be patented and that the source code should be freely available for use, improvement and adaptation by users...
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The free software movement argue that software should not be patentable for a variety of technical and moral reasons. There are considerable problems with the granting of patents, mostly in the U.S., for software innovations that are not novel and non-obvious. Software development is mostly a process of incremental steps, and there is a also a problem with a lack of expert patent examiners and a large enough body of prior art by which to judge the validity of patent applications for software innovations...
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