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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 05:30 PM EDT

It took more than a decade for the non-inventor to lie and cheat their way into conning the USPTO into granting this non- patent.

If I'm on a jury with that patent, I'd recommend that all of the law firms retained by the patent holder be sanctioned for filing a frivolous lawsuit, and that the plaintiff pay all court costs and attorney fees to the defendant, and the entire annual budget for the federal district that the court in which their lawsuits were filed. (IOW, if filed in the Eastern District of Texas, they pay however much it costs to run all of the courts --- din Torah, Sharia, city, county, state, ecclesiastical, and federal regardless of if it is criminal, civil, military, ecclesiastical, etc --- in the entire state of LA, MS, and Texas.)

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 03:03 AM EDT
With the speed of development in the software world being so fast (but with
Patents trying to slow it down) those 11 years between prior date and filing
date would have seen a lot of development: how can we, and the USPTO, not know
that the "inventor" has not used other peoples developments in those
years to actually make their "invention" work?

One criticism I've often seen here is that some inventions are
"obvious" only in hindsight and looking back at inventions of 5-10
years ago they may seem obvious now but then they weren't. That same criticism
should be held here and clearly someone who has taken this long (11 years) is
more than likely patenting something that is now obvious due to the general
shift in the technology.

cm

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