Can Crowdsourcing Curtail Patent Abuse?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 21, 2008 10:17 AM CST
LinuxInsider; By Joelle Tessler
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Some of the biggest players in the technology industry complain that the U.S. patent system is broken -- putting too many patents of dubious merit in the hands of people who can use them to drag companies and other inventors to court. Blaise Mouttet, a small inventor in Alexandria, Va., thinks he knows why. The problem, he said, is that"there are too many lawyers and not enough inventors involved with the patent system."

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