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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 30 2012 @ 01:00 AM EDT |
As the USPTO can't store the working models, why not require a [definitive]
working model to be supplied with the invention for patenting which then *has to
be kept* by the patent holder (sealed somehow by the USPTO?) and delivered on
demand (especially in any litigation - no model then case dismissed with
prejudice and costs awarded against the plaintiff).
For software patents, storing a working model is not exactly a problem - a
server can have vast amount of storage in a small space - so there is no reason
not to require a working "model" of the patented invention; if the
stored "model" ceases to work, then the patent also ceases to be
valid. [This should fix the problem of speed of development in software and,
especially, hardware?][ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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