[UKUUG MediaWatch] UK judge attacks software patents

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CNet is reporting comments by Sir Robin Jacob, an appeals court judge specialising in IP law, critical of software patents and asking for "evidence" of their necessity. In the comments made at The Society for Computers and Law, m'lud was also critical of the US's overbroad stance on patents... "The United States takes the view that [...]

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