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Ok, here’s a question for the opponents of software patents:  If software patents are such a drag on the software industry, why don’t the countries with weak or non-existent software patents, or at least countries with relatively few software patents, have the most innovative software industries?  Perhaps they do, but I have never seen any stats supporting that proposition.  It is well known and irrefutable that countries that had little or no protection for pharmaceuticals also had virtually no ethical (innovative) pharmaceutical companies. Is not the same true for software patents?  While India does a lot of software development, they do not have a reputation for being software innovators — and India had little or no software patent protection for most of the 20th century.  In fact, the lion’s share of the software development done in India is contract development for innovative companies in other countries … [Read more...] about Here’s a Question for Opponents of Software Patents

Since its inception under the Immigration Act of 1990, the H-1B visa has been a controversial program.  The H-1B visa is a temporary work visa for non-immigrant workers in a specialty occupation and requires a higher degree or its equivalent.[1] This visa program is arguably the most important temporary work visa, and has been simultaneously portrayed as both as the means to a more competitive American workforce,[2] and as a device for usurping high-skill jobs and competitive pay from “native-born” American workers.[3]This paper aims to address these two contradicting perceptions in order to ultimately show that the H-1B visa is a positive and necessary program that needs to be fully understood and promoted. Part II of this paper will be an overview of the H-1B visa program, discussing the program’s background and history in order to put the program into context. Part III will discuss the current effects and benefits of the H-1B visa program. It will also outline … [Read more...] about The H-1B Visa Program: Its Contradictory Perception And Why the U.S. Must Increase The Visa Cap

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NEW YORK (AP) — Immigrants with specialized skills are being denied work visas or seeing applications get caught up in lengthy bureaucratic tangles under federal changes that some consider a contradiction to President Donald Trump's promise of a continued pathway to the U.S. for the most talented foreigners.Getting what's known as an H-1B visa has never been a sure thing — the number issued annually is capped at 85,000 and applicants need to enter a lottery to even be considered. But some immigration attorneys, as well as those who hire such workers, say they've seen unprecedented disruptions in the approval process since Trump took office in 2017."You see all these arguments that we want the best and the brightest coming here," said John Goslow, an immigration attorney in Ann Arbor, Michigan. "Yet we're seeing a full-frontal assault on just all aspects of immigration."For American businesses, there is a bottom-line impact.Link Wilson, an architect who co-founded a firm in … [Read more...] about Worker visas in doubt as Trump immigration crackdown increases