Re: Where would we be without these important patents?
- From: Michael Scheltgen <mjs818@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:35:17 GMT
Michał Gancarski wrote:
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:28:04 +0100, sinister <sinister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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There's absolutely no way a method like "Buy It Now" would have been
developed without the prospect of patent protection.
US patenting system is the thing that stops me from regarding your (great in other aspects) country as a potential target of my future migrations. How did it become so twisted? Buy It Now, 1-Click Shopping... what is next? Breath-In Breath-Out?
I sent "Sinister's" comments to a friend of mine who has some experience in the area. His comments:
"Patents. I thought I knew what patents were until I got a job implementing one for a company that had acquired one. Not only are they trivial, they are a downright fraud. The patent examiners are blind, underqualified, and completely bamboozled by patent attorneys! Every patent has a comparable patent or prior art disclosure somewhere else written using different language which encodes an arguably equivalent "invention". If there are not outright copies, there are material claims in the patent which overlap the claims in a different but similar patent! I've seen estimates as high as 98% for the number of invalid patents, which seems conservative in my experience.
If the land title office were operated in the same manner as the patent office, there would be open warfare in the streets because they would be granting different applicants overlapping tracts of land!"
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