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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:24 PM EDT |
Secret patents? Srsly?
Secret copyrights next on the list, then secret trademarks?
People will be sued for using words which they could not have known were
protected. Same goes for inventions.
Obviously there must be more to this, but gut feeling is this is a bad idea.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Srsly? - Authored by: jonathon on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:52 PM EDT
- who cares? - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 02:53 PM EDT
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| Authored by: mtew on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:37 PM EDT |
After all, if the patent is secret, there is no way you can know that it exists
so there is no way to avoid infringing it.
In other words, SECRET PATENTS ARE A TOTALLY STUPID (if not completely insane)
IDEA. Whoever suggested this should be locked up in order to protect the
public. (Actions that would lead to a non-terminal Darwin award might also be a
good idea; it's that bad an idea.)
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| Authored by: celtic_hackr on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 02:23 PM EDT |
The PDF says this includes a new category to keep certain economic patents
secret until they issue. It also talks about NS issues, which those patents are
already secret, and remain so.
It's a crazy idea. The applicant can ask to not publish it until it's approved.
So no foreign companies can design a work around for it and/or contest it's
eligibility.
So the idea behind this is to torpedo foreign companies with patent infringement
claims years later, after they've already developed a product, which happens to
infringe, and not give them a chance to come up with a non-infringing product.
So foreign companies who created a market for an invention that the American
inventor never got around to making shall pay the penalty for infringing a
patent they couldn't possibly known they be infringing.
Riiiiiiight.
Sounds like a patent troll works in Congress, or has their ear. I call it like I
see it.
1) Publish a paper on some new way of doing wifi.
2) Secretly apply for a patent in the US.
3) Wait for someone to produce products based on my paper, and patent to issue.
4) Sue, sue, sue!
5) Profit!
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 03:51 PM EDT |
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Link
There are over
5000 secret
patents in the US.
In fact, Microsoft has some.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 05:05 PM EDT |
Classified inventions can be patented by those who have a security clearance.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 09:46 AM EDT |
I understand that Patents exist only to give the creators a
"temporary" monopoly on their creations in return for
"sharing" the details of their invention. If the sharing part of the
contract is eliminated, there is no contract since there is no value exchanged
for the monopoly advantage. This means it's no longer a Patent, its a monopoly.
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