Groklaw - Digging for Truth

	When you want to know more...

Home
Archives
Site Map
Search
About Groklaw
Awards
Legal Research
Timelines

ApplevSamsung
ApplevSamsung p.2
ArchiveExplorer
Autozone
Bilski
Cases
Cast: Lawyers
Comes v. MS
Contracts/Documents
Courts
DRM
Gordon v MS
GPL
Grokdoc
HTML How To
IPI v RH
IV v. Google
Legal Docs
Lodsys
MS Litigations
MSvB&N
News Picks
Novell v. MS
Novell-MS Deal
ODF/OOXML
OOXML Appeals
OraclevGoogle
Patents
ProjectMonterey
Psystar
Quote Database
Red Hat v SCO
Salus Book
SCEA v Hotz
SCO Appeals
SCO Bankruptcy
SCO Financials
SCO Overview
SCO v IBM
SCO v Novell
SCO:Soup2Nuts
SCOsource
Sean Daly
Software Patents
Switch to Linux
Transcripts
Unix Books

Gear

Groklaw Gear

You won't find me on Facebook

Donate

No Legal Advice

The information on Groklaw is not intended to constitute legal advice. While Mark is a lawyer and he has asked other lawyers and law students to contribute articles, all of these articles are offered to help educate, not to provide specific legal advice. They are not your lawyers.

Here's Groklaw's comments policy.

What's New

STORIES
No new stories

COMMENTS last 48 hrs
No new comments

Sponsors

Hosting:

On servers donated to ibiblio by AMD.

Webmaster

pending patent, not so bad | 543 comments | Create New Account

Comments belong to whoever posts them. Please notify us of inappropriate comments.

pending patent, not so bad

Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 06:24 PM EDT

I did some work on a patent that is now pending,
and although the "translation to patentese"
made it aesthetically ugly, the claims were actually
pretty good and the summary and details were almost
exactly what I wrote. I was happy...

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Why does the jury struggle so much?

Authored by: Wol on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 09:47 AM EDT

As I keep saying, just call the alleged inventor (sorry, but if the lawyers
wrote the patent then how can he have invented what they wrote) into court, and
ask him point blank "do you understand the wording of the patent as
actually granted? Did you need a lawyer to help you understand it, or is it
pretty much how you would describe your invention in your own words?"

As soon as the inventor says he needed a lawyer to understand what was actually
written, you're well on the way to getting the patent declared unlawful.

Cheers,
Wol

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Groklaw © Copyright 2003-2013 Pamela Jones.
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Comments are owned by the individual posters.

PJ's articles are licensed under a Creative Commons License. ( Details )