<br>&quot;Patent Absurdity: <br> how software patents broke the system&quot;<br>
<br><a href="http://patentabsurdity.com/watch.html" target="_blank">http://patentabsurdity.com/watch.html</a><br><br>You can download the documentary under a <br>Creative Commons <br>by Attribution-No-Derivative Works License.<br>
<br><br>&quot;More than 200,000 software patents have been issued by the US Patent
Office and they have a backlog of 1 million applications uninspected,
many of them software patents.&quot;<br><br><br>Starring: <br><br>James Bessen,<br>author of &quot;Patent Failure: <br>How Judges, Bureaucrats,and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk&quot;<br><a href="http://www.researchoninnovation.org/bio.htm">http://www.researchoninnovation.org/bio.htm</a><br>
<a href="http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/">http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/</a><br><br><br>Ben Klemens, <br>author of &quot;Math You can&#39;t Use&quot;<br><a href="http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/chapter_1/mathyoucantuse.pdf">http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/chapter_1/mathyoucantuse.pdf</a><br>
<br><br><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Eben Moglen,<br>Professor of Law, Columbia Law School<br>Founding Directory, Software Freedom Law Center</span><br><br><br>Dan Ravicher,<br>Executive Director of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Patent_Foundation" title="Public Patent Foundation">Public Patent Foundation</a> (PUBPAT)<br>
Legal Director of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Law_Center" title="Software Freedom Law Center">Software Freedom Law Center</a>.<br><br><br>Richard 
M. Stallman, <br>President of the Free Software Foundation<br><br><br>Mark Webbink<br>Executive Director of the Center for Patent Innovations,<br>the home of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-Patent" title="Peer-to-Patent">Peer-to-Patent</a> program.<br>
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