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**PymnImmen** · 08-13-2009, 12:11 AM

The firm said that several years ago it approached Microsoft with a breakthrough product in data processing, only to be spurned and to see its technology show up later in versions of Microsoft Word.

That sentence makes it seem that the small company might in fact have a case.

However I think that the whole patent system should be either seriously reduced or entirely scrapped.

Software is a brilliant example... does anyone really think that software companies would not innovate if they didn't have the patent system to protect them?

08-13-2009, 12:11 AM	#1
PymnImmen Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 528 Senior Member	MS ordered to stop selling 'Word' The firm said that several years ago it approached Microsoft with a breakthrough product in data processing, only to be spurned and to see its technology show up later in versions of Microsoft Word. That sentence makes it seem that the small company might in fact have a case. However I think that the whole patent system should be either seriously reduced or entirely scrapped. Software is a brilliant example... does anyone really think that software companies would not innovate if they didn't have the patent system to protect them?
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