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It is getting *much* hotter in the kitchen... | 478 comments | Create New Account
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It is getting *much* hotter in the kitchen...
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 12:14 AM EDT
With all these cases clogging the federal dockets...suggest that congress will
need to get involved soon.
(Christenson)
<Soapbox> Real Reform means:
1) Patent jury has some qualification/interest in patents, either an issued
patent as an inventor or a 4-year, accredited bachelor's degree.
2) (more likely) all patents get review before going to court
3) Enough $$ that patent office can hire tough, smart examiners (and proposals
on how to keep them tough are invited! -- maybe a 1 year program or something)
</Soapbox>

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Insanity
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 06:45 AM EDT
As long as we have software patents we'll have this sort of behaviour. Declare
all software patents null and void and stop any new ones being granted.

Maybe if a few politicans businesses were in the firing line they'd sit up and
take note and get something done about it. How many developers are being
dissuaded from continuing for fear of trolls accusing them of IP theft, and how
many millions of dollars are being wasted in dealing with this?

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  • Insanity - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 09:13 AM EDT
USPTO shares the responsibility but....
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 10:09 AM EDT

The real problem is caused by patent filing Lawyers willing to play word games until the patent is eventually granted. Remember the sentimentality expressed by some of the Lawyers with the most recent Supreme Court Ruling:

How long will it take the Federal Circuit to overrule this inexplicable nonsense?
Note: If you do not wish to give Gene Quinn a hit, don't click the link.

The point being that:

    So long as there are Lawyers like Quinn who are not willing to have the invention described properly and accept the USPTO not granting the patent, we will continue to have problems.
And I can not think of anything that can be dropped into place to stop such - in my humble non-legal opinion - gaming.

RAS

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Insanity
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 09 2012 @ 01:44 PM EDT
Your post is the insanity. The US Court in Eastern District of Texas has no
authority outside of the US and software problems exist outside of the US just
as they do in the US.

There is something else at issue here.

"Ken Burns and Lynn Novick tackle the story of Prohibition and its repeal
in their PBS documentary" showing what happens when there is a demand for a
product and the government attempts to keep people from acquiring it.

There is no general demand for Linux because it does not bring to the general
population what people want their computer to do.

This points out the fact people do not care about the operating system but do
care about what their computer will do to improve their lives.

Linux in that regard is a mass failure as 90+% of non geeks do not want it and
will not use it even if forced too. It brings nothing to their computer except
headaches they do not want. They do not want to be bothered with installing a
different operating system that will not allow them to do the things that they
need doing ie run their financial program, employment required programs, or
their fun related programs and nothing said here will correct that issue any
anyone who disagrees with this analysis really needs to watch the Ken Burns
Probation while questioning why Linux is not having the same effect on the
masses.

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  • Insanity - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 10 2012 @ 02:37 PM EDT
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