{"id":685,"date":"2011-08-04T22:14:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T04:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=685"},"modified":"2011-08-04T22:14:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T04:14:01","slug":"npr-when-patents-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/npr-when-patents-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR: When Patents Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I write software for a living, and I have a hard time recognizing redeeming value of software patents (other than to have something to negotiate with when someone tries to sue a company). Reading the NPR transcript about patents got my blood boiling. The system has been gamed, and patent troll companies legally extort money from other companies.<\/p>\n<p>Read or listen <a href=\" http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/441\/when-patents-attack\">here<\/a>. Are there good reasons to have software patents, and if so, on what types of inventions and in what circumstances?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write software for a living, and I have a hard time recognizing redeeming value of software patents (other than to have something to negotiate with when someone tries to sue a company). Reading the NPR transcript about patents got my blood boiling. The system has been gamed, and patent troll companies legally extort money &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/npr-when-patents-attack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NPR: When Patents Attack!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,26],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-patents","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}