Patent Absurdity mailed to 200 policy setters

Venture capitalist Brad Feld has mailed a copy of Patent Absurdity to 200 policy setters in the USA (see Who should see Patent Absurdity?). The 200 are influential people in companies, standards groups, academia, and the relevent political committees.

Besides the value of spreading the film, but action is important because it is coming from a venture capitalist. That’ll help deflate the nonsense idea about patents being necessary for the funding of software development. For a list of articles by vocal anti-software-patent venture capitalists, see:

• http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Statements_from_venture_capitalists

Other related links:

• Brad Feld on software patents (en.swpat.org)
• Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system
• Bilski v. Kappos (2010, USA) – the case we’re all waiting for
• The remaining possible dates (June: 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th)