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FTC publishes Report on Patents and Competition

The Federal Trade Commission of the USA has published a summary report, based on findings which it gathered from extensive hearings. FTC sees grave problems with the patent system. The report says that extending this system to software and business methods in the 1980/90s was a mistake, but stops short of proposing to reverse this decision. Instead it proposes a series of procedural reforms.

http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/ftc1029/index.en.html
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