For most of my career I have been in application development. The idea of a patents on software seemed strange and somehow against the technology movements that I have enjoyed and admired so much, like Unix and the Internet.
I have had a change of heart about Software IP (Intellectual Propery) over the last year. As I have filed several patent applications on technology I have been working on, I have come to realize that oraganizations and indivduals need to protect the IP that they spend so much time and energy developing so that a competitor does not just walk in and duplicate the work for free. After all, this is what other industries, like pharma, do all the time. Is it evil to want to protect your investment?
One difficult thing I have had to learn is that the invention process that leads to new IP, is unlike the software development process which leads to good, supportable and resusable software. I will post more on this later.
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