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nitrogen on Sept 27, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reminder: Today is the deadline to tell USPTO to e...

Should that be a consideration when deciding whether to abolish software patents? If nothing else, the USPTO can grandfather the existing patents in, but restrict the ability of their owners to use them aggressively.

tkeller on Sept 27, 2010 [–]

Should it? I don't know. Will it? Absolutely.

And what does "aggressively" mean? Making a patent unenforceable will have the same effect as invalidating it.

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