There are some issues regarding patent applications of RSS and different aspects of Meta Data and what its overall effects would be. When companies are able to patent obvious technical innovations and successfully prevent other companies from moving forward, an unhealthy situation occurs. So how do patents really work in the software industry?
Are Patents Important?
Some say that the US Patent System has become a murky swamp for the tech industry where only corporations with deep pockets are considered safe. The long standing resistance to patents is based on the belief that it has become a barrier to innovation. The idea that a small firms freedom to innovate is curtailed by the existence of so many patents in the software industry persists. At least one research contradicts this premise that large companies use claims of patent infringement to fend-off smaller competitors. It further claims that small businesses can actually use patents to their advantage even in an industry that has seen an explosion of new patents in the past decades.
The experts’ advice to small companies is to come up with a patent strategy before starting operation. Research...
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