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| Authored by: charlie Turner on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 06:10 PM EDT |
So then the USPTO should be referred to as the USPTO Trust Fund, like Social
Security funds are referred to as the Social Security Trust Fund? Rut Ro Rorge!
It's worse then we thought :([ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: albert on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 01:44 PM EDT |
After all the discussion, and I don't mean just the
responses to your post, I can't see why you still think some
software patents are OK. Irrespective of patent lawyers,
trolls, the patently dysfunctional USPTO, the
dysfunctional Congress, and judges who mean well, but are
forced to rule on complex technical questions, the whole
problem is caused by allowing software patents to begin
with.
Wouldn't the elimination of software patents solve the
problem? Isn't it the simplest solution? We like computers
because they can do an infinite number of things fast and
well. Why should we allow the monopolization of SOME of
those things? Why should we have lawyers make decisions
about what is novel, trivial, and obvious?
Who loses? Some (but not all) patent lawyers, some
companies that have invested ridiculously large sums in
absurdly ridiculous patents, and patent trolls.
So let's get an apology from the USPTO ("Sorry, folks, we
should never have allowed them"), and eliminate them.
With software patents, we ALL lose.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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