Software Patents: Background, Discussion and Illustration of Harm

Currently software patents are not explicitly recognized in Malaysia and it should remain so. There is no hope of us ever achieving technological independence and building our domestic software capacity if software patents are allowed. Local software developers and companies will suffer as they have little or no patents arsenal to fall back on in the case of a software patent infringement lawsuit and many will also lack the financial and legal resources needed to fight a lawsuit. It will surely blow out whatever spark there is currently in our fledgling local software industry and in the end only large established multinational software companies will be left here.

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