full-disclosure - Re: Patent Absurdity - How software patents broke the system

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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:49:28 -0500
From: Rohit Patnaik <quanticle@...il.com>
To: "M.B.Jr." <marcio.barbado@...il.com>
Cc: Full-Disclosure mailing list <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Patent Absurdity - How software patents broke
	the system

Now here's a question that should bring this thread back on-topic.  How
patentable are security tools?  Lets say, for example, that I got a patent
on fuzzers - i.e. a patent on the process of generating random input for a
program.  Could it be that I could restrict the availability and use of
these tools?  That'd be pretty worrying from a security perspective, no?

-- Rohit Patnaik

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:31 PM, M.B.Jr. <marcio.barbado@...il.com> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Patent Absurdity explores the case of software patents and the history
> of judicial activism that led to their rise, and the harm being done
> to software developers and the wider economy. The film is based on a
> series of interviews conducted during the Supreme Court's review of in
> re Bilski — a case that could have profound implications for the
> patenting of software.
>
> http://patentabsurdity.com/watch.html
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Marcio Barbado, Jr.
>
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