{"id":6365,"date":"2012-09-14T17:31:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T22:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2012-10-03T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T20:33:37","slug":"the-software-patent-solution-has-been-right-here-all-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6365","title":{"rendered":"The software patent solution has been right here all along"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Lemley&#8217;s thesis is radically simple: &#8220;Most software patents today are written in functional terms,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;If courts would faithfully apply the 1952 Act, <strong>limiting those claims to the actual algorithms<\/strong> the patentees disclosed and their equivalents, they could prevent overclaiming by software patentees and solve much of the patent thicket problem that besets software innovation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/d\/open-source-software\/the-software-patent-solution-has-been-right-here-all-along-202299\">The software patent solution has been right here all along | Open Source Software &#8211; InfoWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lemley&#8217;s thesis is radically simple: &#8220;Most software patents today are written in functional terms,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;If courts would faithfully apply the 1952 Act, limiting those claims to the actual algorithms the patentees disclosed and their equivalents, they could prevent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[670,34,874],"class_list":["post-6365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-algorithms","tag-patents","tag-software-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6910,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}