[LINK] RFC: Submission to the Innovation Review

[Brendan Scott]

Glen Turner wrote:
> Roger Clarke wrote:
> 
>> Many of the harmful aspects of patent and copyright law derive from
>> international conventions and in particular from the spectacularly
>> inadvisable intellectual property chapter of the 'Free Trade'
>> Agreement entered into with the U.S.A. by the previous Government. An
>> assessment of the US-FTA provisions is in Clarke (2004) - Annex B to
>> this Submission.
> 
> An interesting thought experiment is "what is the minimal change to
> the patents system that would made it work correctly for software".
> The answer turns out to be to allow concurrent or subsequent independent
> discovery.

How would this be proven?

Would not every defendant swear black and blue that they'd never seen the patented technology?

> Interestingly, that's an answer the drug companies can live with.

ref?