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And that would be part of the problem | 756 comments | Create New Account
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And that would be part of the problem
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 08:53 PM EDT

I was simply speaking to the underlying exchange:

    A Monopoly
for
    The knowledge of the invention
If I were to list the biggest problem I see with the existing system it would be (realized this recently):
    Patent Lawyers always get paid, therefore always have financial incentive to file and argue a patent - yet they conversely have zero risk, no disincentive, nothing to limit them!
With no bar in place, there is no behavior limit. They are absolutely free to argue:
    E=MC2
really is:
    A method for determining the energy equivalent of a mass comprising:

    determining the mass;and
    multiplying the mass by the square of the speed of light, thereby determining
    the energy equivilent.
Even knowing the Supreme's explicitly stated E=MC2 is not patentable subject matter.

Place a limit of some kind on what Patent Lawyers can do - and I think we'll start to see some of these word games decrease. But that really depends on how well such a limit can be measured, how high that bar is, and how much it would cost a Lawyer - personally - every time s/he crosses that bar.

RAS

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What a double standard!
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 20 2012 @ 08:23 AM EDT
Funny how the courts think a programmer "skilled in the art" is
extremely
capable when it comes to being able to reimplement extremely fuzzy
function "disclosed" by a software patent.

And yet the Patent Office does not apply the same high expectations of
their capability to reject the patenting of ideas and algorithms which
should be OBVIOUS to software practitioners skilled in the art.

The system is completely broken, and should be scrapped!

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