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Digging deep into software patents by Alden Kent
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Digging deep into software patents |
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Business,Law
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Today, nearly all of the people depend on computer technology for their business and commercial use. A computer is made up an amount of software which is being helped by a hardware structure to run different programs. Today's information system works together with software and hardware. Hence these can be termed as your intellectual property. It is not only critical to the software world but at the same time to other businesses too. However, the issue of software patents has always remained controversial thing not only in United States but all across the world, wherein you could hear people speaking for and against the this issue. Despite all the hard state special companies go for software patenting for their unfamiliar developed programs by seeking the help of patent attorneys. In this fashion they are able to have a complete ownership of their self created software programs without worrying much about their products being misused by any means or methods. And as far as the definition of software patents is concerned, it doesn't have any standard definition. However, the definition coming from the FFII (Foundation for a Free Facts infrastructure), software patent is a kind of patent which is based on any performance of computer realized by means of a computer program. The basic factor why different lawyers keep themselves away from defining this term is because the software patent applications do not have any kind of legal impact under the existing laws. Also in Europe the issue of software patent has similar story. Now let's talk about the purpose of software patents. As far as the United States is concerned, the purpose of patents is included in the constitutional clause which renders Congress the power which is to motivate the science progress and useful arts by giving the exclusive rights to inventors and authors to their respective discovering and writings. For complete essentials you can certainly think of going through the Article one of constitution in the section 8 and clause 8. In European countries there is hardly any such effects are found but you get to see four most prominent justification theories obtainable which includes the instance of. This also comprises the justice given to the inventor and advantage for society by rewarding the inventors. Here you need disclosure in the return in order to get the exclusive suitable, whereas this disclosure can promote further development. But the disclosure values are not essential to be overrated where some special inventions are supposed to be kept secret since with software patents the independent inventions simply gets exploited. Yet, in the current ongoing situation it is generally debated whether people benefit or lose with software patents. http://patentsusa.com
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