A Product of Software Patents

Software should not be patented, but the Intellectual Property Rights should be protected in another manner that does not entail a Copyright, Trademark or secrecy. A new form of protection should be created based on certain criteria such as useful life of a patent, incremental innovation, value to society and or value to life. Congress should devise a shorter-term idea protection specifically for the sequential or disruptive innovation, but not on the product. The protection should be 3 to 5 years. It should enable technological advancement and license agreements. There may be as in other developed countries, a mandated licensing agreement for some critical healthcare oriented medicines, biotechnologies or other such discoveries that will benefit society. Perhaps, by the use of government funding through tax breaks or tax forgiveness