[Fsfe-ie] [Info] BBC Radio 4 : In Business :"Breaking Down of the Patent System"

[Adam Moran]

Hi,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/ram/inbusiness_current.ram

This may be worth a listen. ( It doesn't really get started until 1 min 
20 sec and talks about the U.S. model until 16 mins. )

'Interesting' ideas coming from the Director ( and ex-head ) of the U.S. 
Patent Office ... to paraphrase "an increase in the number of patents 
means an increase in the number of innovations" ... that is

	Patents = Innovations

The authors of "Innovation and Its Discontents" [1] counter this 
argument. So does Lawrence Lessig. So does Joe Kraus ( ex exite.com )

Also Dominique Guellec of the European Patent Office makes some good points.

--
Adam

[1] http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/7810.html