Report urges software patent fix

Predicting Effort to Fix Software Bugs

Predicting the time and effort for a software problem has long been a difficult task. We present an approach that predicts the fixing effort for an issue. Our technique leverages existing issue tracking systems: given a new issue report, we search for similar, earlier reports and use their average time as a prediction. Our approach thus allows for early effort estimation, helping in assigning i...

The software patent debate

It was never the object of patent laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures. Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges tends rather to obstruct than to stimulate invention. It creates a class of speculative schemer...

Patent ductus arteriosus in a lamb: A case report

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a persistent patency of a vessel normally present in the fetus that connects the pulmonary arterial system to the aorta. The ductus arteriosus fails to close at birth when breathing commences and placental blood circulation is removed. Closure of the ductus arteriosus arises in response to decline pulmonary vascular resistance and increased systemic vascular re...

Common Fund Patent Report

Patent Issues Aplenty An review of software patent problems

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