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U.S.: An Interview With the Patents Office Director and Tim O'Reilly

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Who's Really Being Protected? An Interview With the Patents Office Director and Tim O'Reilly

by Stephen Pizzo 05/24/2000

Late last year, when the patent office granted Amazon.com a patent on its "One Click" online purchase system, it hit home: Software patents, especially patents on Internet software, are likely to have a profound effect on the future of the Internet, the software industry in general, and the Open Source community in particular. In this interview you will hear Patent Office Director Q. Todd Dickinson equate Internet/software patents with any other telecommunications industry issue, while O'Reilly Associates CEO Tim O'Reilly doesn't agree with him, with the legislation, or with the very idea that programmers can prove patentability.

Dickinson and O'Reilly disagree on nearly everything, in fact, from the degree of unique ownership of most Internet innovations to the possibilities of establishing "prior art" to resolve software-patent disputes. Read on or listen to the interview, as Stephen Pizzo tries to moderate between government lawyer/administrator Dickinson and Open Source advocate/writer/programmer O'Reilly.

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