] Stallings called on the industry to stop what he calls
] "bad behaviour" by companies who either seek patents for
] unoriginal work or collect and hoard patents.
]
] "If you are a company and invent patents you should state
] your intent to use them and there should be a period of
] time in which you have to use them," he said. "There are
] companies that are in the business [of] simply collecting
] and want to sleep on it."
]
] "We think software patents are important, but they should
] be granted for things that are new," he added. "We're
] open to sharing information about the patent itself to
] prove that it's new. And we think everyone should be held
] to that standard".
]
] IBM's antidote to the problem is to increase the scope of
] the investigation into 'prior art' associated with
] software patents. Stallings believes that sort of
] undertaking is something the academic community,
] volunteers and others are willing to help in.
]
] "Because of the Internet, you can have thousands if not
] millions of individuals around the world share
] information about whether that invention actually took
] place years and years ago. You'll find volunteers and
] others interested in a public inspection of patents. The
] technology [currently] exists for that."

Here here! I'm not sure how well an "open source patent review process" will work, but its nice to here a major company taking about crubbing the filing of stupid patents.

IBM calls for patent reform: ZDNet Australia: News