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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 07:06 AM EDT |
Or post a 100K bounty for others who find prior art that invalidates a patent.
That would encourage a comprehensive search from the companies to find it, and
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 07:26 AM EDT |
I can't figure out who "valid" backyard inventors are.
That is, even if you talk about Al Gore, of Gore-tex, he had employers as such,
and they weren't small. And gaming that kind of system will be rampant -- whats
$100K for a patent if you pay its inventor twice that annually? Do you really
think even $500K in bonds (one for each patent in suit) would have stopped
Apple?
I'm an inventor, (invented two halfway (but only halfway) reasonable patents,
and my current employer practices one of them and makes $$), and I invent on the
job for corporations. My job title, of course, involves engineer. If I get to
the point of selling stuff I own, and I've considered it, I still would be
forming an LLC or similar to do it, and its doubtful I will own all of it...I am
only one person.
The one real "backyard inventor" I met was severely undereducated,
barely washed, and had a patent on what amounted to a perpetual motion machine
in the form of an electric car with a generator hung on the back wheels and two
sets of batteries. My company gave him a computerised motor control. My Honda
Civic hybrid does a much better at the same job, regenerating braking energy.
Of my next two "interesting" ideas, neither is patentable, at least by
Groklaw criteria...one is just another computerised vehicle controller for a
particular market, the other is a re-write of the Minix OS from the ground up
for security against programs doing anything other than what the owner decides
they are allowed to.
(Christenson)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 07:57 AM EDT |
Corporations are already not allowed to be named as inventors on patent
applications. Individual human(s) must be the named inventor. Corporations are
"assigned" ownership of the patents. If such a system that you propose
with a sliding scale were put in place, corporations would require heir
employees to sign contracts whereby they assign ownership only after the patent
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- Exactly - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 02:51 PM EDT
- Wouldn't work - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 31 2012 @ 08:52 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 10:10 AM EDT |
Better-charge the 100k bond to appeal any rejection of a patent. And keep
any rejected patent as prior art. The examiner ends up with similar
incentives but backyard inventors can still submit at low cost. It even
encourages inventors to get their applications right the first time - which will
help backlog.
--Erwin[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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