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Not just timing issues, but rules

Authored by: tinkerghost on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 05:59 PM EDT

I was part of a team that submitted a patent. By the time the lawyers finished
with it, I had no idea what the heck was being patented & I had done most of
the lab work for it. There is absolutely no way I would have been able to
duplicate the work without starting over at ground zero with just the basic
chemistry.

I have had to read several patents now, and not one of them has actually done
what a patent is supposed to do - promote the Progress of Science and Useful
Arts. Most of them are legal gibberish that is designed to cover every possible
method of producing something that's already been abstracted through 3 levels of
committees.

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You patented WHAT?!?!?!

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