patent expert from the legal department of Alcatel, French telecom giant, applauds, explains that all patents stimulate innovation and the fact that the US has the most advanced software industry sufficiently proves that software patents, just like patents in any other field of technology, stimulate software innovation. Moreover, the most important reason to support patents is that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) badly need them.

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