Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 12:00 PM EDT |
No, deeds aren't cryptic at all. Anyone with a few hours of training can learn
to read them. Any two people can read the same deed and agree which plot of
ground it denotes, and what the boundaries of that plot ARE.
And that is what is completely NOT true about software patents. Can you imagine
two large teams of lawyers arguing three weeks about whether a particular hiker
trespassed on a particular property? But that is not only conceivable but normal
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Authored by: Ian Al on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 12:01 PM EDT |
If you read a patent that a lawyer can claim in court is infringed by your
design you are in line for massively increased damages even though the patent is
worthless for the purpose of the making of your invention.
You can never find a software design in a patent and so none of them are any use
in determining whether your software design infringes the patented abstract
ideas and functions.
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Regards
Ian Al
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 03:49 PM EDT |
Patents are granted at such an enormous rate that there
aren't enough patent
lawyers for every small business to check
every potentially dangerous
patent.
Go back to the purpose of patents: to increase the rate
of
technological purpose by rewarding inventors for disclosing how their
inventions work. Patents do not disclose how inventions work in a
way that is
useful to other inventors. Patents do not reward inventors.
Patents reward
patent lawyers at the expense of everyone else,
and everyone else has had
enough.
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Authored by: cjk fossman on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 04:29 PM EDT |
You are conflating real property and software.
They are not similar.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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