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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 11:37 PM EDT |
"Not until someone actually builds the device"
Bingo - I think that's the pivotal flaw with the patent
system.
Our patent system rewards "vaporware", not actual products.
Or to put it another way, ideas are cheap - what is hard is
to actually make them work successfully.
The patent trolls think of inventing as some sort of
"Eureka" moment, where an "inventor" (who is always
portrayed as the "little guy" with no corporate resources)
comes up with a great, innovative idea. Everything after
the "great idea" is nothing more than "connecting the dots".
I don't know if they *really* think that way, but that is
how they portray the process when defending software patents
and similar flimflam.
That's not how things really work, of course, but it is used
by folks to claim that they should receive the entire
value of Google because Google allegedly is doing something
they described many years ago.
Even the great patent troll Thomas Edison admitted that
"genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration", if I
remember the quote and its source correctly.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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