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EFF Politely Asks PTO to Stop Issuing So Many Crappy Software Patents

Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued countless bad software patents. These patents tend to be hopelessly vague and overbroad. Indeed, they are often so packed with indecipherable patent jargon that software engineers have trouble understanding them. As one programmer...
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Apr 17, 2013EFF Politely Asks PTO to Stop Issuing So Many Crappy Software Patents by bane20661

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