This paper presents the views of the representative of the Foundation for a Free Information Structure and Eurolinux Alliance. In his opinion, most software patents are trivial and broad and the reasons are to be found in the patent system itself rather than in the insufficiencies of the examination process. The extension of patentability to software comes at the expense of several of the necessary filters needed to raise the proportion of ‘good patents’ among those granted. One of those filters is the ...