More Software Patent Controversy

Over at the O'Reilly Misinformation Weblog, Bruce A. Epstein posts his thoughts on this article, relating to software patents in the EU. It begins:

Like almost everything I've read on the web in regard to patents, the preceding article is full of inaccuracies and opinion masquerading as fact. Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. A poorly implemented patent system is bad (agreed!). But the solution is to improve the patent system, not simply discard software patents. (Disclaimer: I have a patent pending on some online collaborative database software that I've designed. The patent wouldn't cover all databases or online collaboration. It is more narrow than that, but the details aren't important for the purposes of this discussion.)