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April 13, 2004
Their Truce, Your Trouble
Posted by Dana Blankenhorn
What do these stories have in common:
They all represent the end of furious lawsuits over patents, further legitimizing patent claims generally.
This is, in many ways, a dangerous trend.
It's dangerous because we haven't had the kind of systemic reform of the patent process that would keep bogus patents from being granted. As a result there is now an entire industry that consists only of lawyers suing people on patent claims. These companies stifle innovation. And they've now got a green light.
Also, if you think Microsoft figures on coming out a loser in all this, think again.
The bottom line here is that technology should be the work of engineers and programmers, not lawyers. America is forgetting the Secret of Slater's Mill. (That's where the picture comes from -- read the whole story from RI.Net here.) Which is going to be very, very good for India, China, Malaysia and Russia.
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Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for over 25 years and has covered the online world professionally since 1985. He founded the "Interactive Age Daily" for CMP Media, and has written for the Chicago Tribune, Advertising Age, and dozens of other publications over the years.
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