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Risch conflates an idea with its implementation | 67 comments | Create New Account
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Risch conflates an idea with its implementation
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 17 2012 @ 06:36 PM EST

On "phoning home" - I thought that was a feature of mainframes/mini- computers for a long time (IBM AS/400, S/390, DEC VAX, etc).

(oh... and I'm a different anon than the previous)

On the rest of the ideas, as an engineer, the problems that I see is that software patents manage to lock down all possible solutions to a particular problem rather than the solution that the patenter had come up with. I think it'd be awesome if the patent review process was more open. Upon receiving an application, publish the abstracts. Anybody can submit an implementation for the abstract in response. Give a short period (1 month, 1 year, etc) and if any presented solutions match the claims of the patent, the patent is declared obvious to those skilled in the art and not issued. Basically, engage those "skilled in the art" in the process of checking for obviousness.

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