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Developers Do Not Want Software Patents, But Press Abandons Facts

Non-practising entities (NPEs/trolls) versus development

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Summary: Disparity between public interest and reporting in a couple of publications in Africa and the United States

THE other day we found this poor article which says "Kenya is beginning to develop home grown capacity in software development and the government will support the efforts," supposedly with software patents. The whole article smells like propaganda for software patents as some nonsense like patent monopolies would make no sense for a country like Kenya [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].



The article says: "The challenge for the local software industry is access to skilled legal drafting of their patent application. Over 200 patent applications were submitted in 2011, and 17 were granted.""

"People or publishers who misrepresent the public interest needs to be named and they need to be corrected."Another propaganda piece for patents says: "Headlines in today's business, legal and policy papers abound with stories about patent wars over cellphones, tablet computers and other indispensable high-tech products. Some accounts focus on controversial court decisions like federal Judge Richard A. Posner's curt dismissal of every patent claim that Apple and Motorola brought against each other. Others fret about the anti-competitive implications of Federal Trade Commission reports on the role of patents in setting technological standards. And still others applaud Congress for considering whether to limit the power of the International Trade Commission to exclude from the United States products that infringe on domestic patents."

Yes, and patent lawyers do not like this, do they? The most annoying deception is one that tries to attribute pro-software patents stance to developers. People or publishers who misrepresent the public interest needs to be named and they need to be corrected. Otherwise we face a global warming-like disinformation campaign, where one side is climate scientists and another is energy giants-funded propaganda.

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