[Insight-users] Patent Absurdity (documentary)

[Luis Ibanez]

"Patent Absurdity:
 how software patents broke the system"

http://patentabsurdity.com/watch.html

You can download the documentary under a
Creative Commons
by Attribution-No-Derivative Works License.


"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."


Starring:

James Bessen,
author of "Patent Failure:
How Judges, Bureaucrats,and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk"
http://www.researchoninnovation.org/bio.htm
http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/


Ben Klemens,
author of "Math You can't Use"
http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/chapter_1/mathyoucantuse.pdf


Eben Moglen,
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Founding Directory, Software Freedom Law Center


Dan Ravicher,
Executive Director of the Public Patent
Foundation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Patent_Foundation>(PUBPAT)
Legal Director of Software Freedom Law
Center<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Law_Center>
.


Richard  M. Stallman,
President of the Free Software Foundation


Mark Webbink
Executive Director of the Center for Patent Innovations,
the home of the Peer-to-Patent
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-Patent>program.
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