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Just obviousness, strictness and legibility | 129 comments | Create New Account
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reap what you sow.
Authored by: DannyB on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 01:19 PM EDT
Another biblical saying (Rev 13:10) could be loosely quoted:

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Or to take liberties:

Live by the patent, die by the patent.


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The price of freedom is eternal litigation.

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'will be releasing a device' won't do
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 01:51 PM EDT
It is too easy to withdraw that 'will be releasing' on some spurious but genuine
sounding ground. Politicians get away with such all the time.

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Just obviousness, strictness and legibility
Authored by: marcosdumay on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 01:56 PM EDT
"The us should change the law so that you have to prove you
have, are or will be releasing a device that practices your
patent before granting it."

That would remove the last tinny ammount of justice one can take from the patent
law. It would make it impossible for poor teams or individuals to get patents,
and put them exclusively at the hands of corporations.

If patent law is to survive (as I'm not sure patents are a good thing, in any
form), there should be harder requisited for obviousness - including the evident
idea that if two people independently invent the same thing, it was obvious -
strictness - if it closes a market, it is too broad (that should cover
interoperability) - and legibility - if it doesn't tell a non-laywer what the
invention is, it is useless.

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Apple Planted Seed IP Litigation 1982, Suing Franklin Computers Out of Business!
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 05:05 PM EDT
Serves them right! ....two scumbag deviants suing each other!

At least when Apple sued Franklin, they were actually only
trying to compete. That Copyright Lawsuit set the stage for
Apple's entire anti-competitive strategy. Forget Microsoft...
Apple developed the Halloween Documents Strategies and
Microsoft just copied them. "EMBRACE EXTEND EXTINGUISH"

Love seeing Apple get a taste of their own medicine!

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