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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 01:43 PM EST |
"Keep old patents intact. They'll be worthless soon anyway."
Not soon enough. Every day that someone can sue for a worthless patent is a day
too long.
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Authored by: RPN on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 02:55 PM EST |
They won't be worthless soon enough. That said I do suspect that with the bigger
technology companies at least, not the trolls, you could get a deal like you can
keep your patents less than 5 years old from filing with an agreed life of say 5
years from issued pushed through. It's the trolls that won't agree to such a
deal but they don't have the political clout of the technology companies. The
problem would be with agreeing term lengths but anything shorter would be better
than waiting for the current terms to run out.
Remember it isn't just about the companies executives and engineers and a number
of them more or less plainly wouldn't weep at the loss of software patents. It's
their shareholders you need to appease a little by at least softening the
'blow'. But waiting for the full term currently available is way to long at the
pace this technology moves at and with the damage being done to it.
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Authored by: Ian Al on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 08:08 AM EST |
With Oracle's patent on a method of writing software declared valid after review
by the USPTO, how long before most of the useful software writing methods become
patented?
To put it another way, do we have to invent a new plug and socket every five
years in order to avoid the patents on the old ones?
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