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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 03:25 PM EDT |
Vast swathes of the population still have no internet access and lack
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 05:25 PM EDT |
Allowing electronic submission of patent applications and of submissions of
prior art likely violates some "invalid but issued anyway" patent or
two out there. The USPTO was probably afraid of being sued for infringement.
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| Authored by: DannyB on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 12:34 PM EDT |
The Patent Office needs to catch up to the financial sector.
If we can have extremely high frequency trading, then we should be able to also
have extremely high frequency patent filing.
A good area of research to begin work on would be a machine that patents every
combination of existing invention or machine when used together or combined in
some way. An existing example would be the clock-radio. A new example might be
the can-opener-iPhone.
Another possibility is a computer that finds every desirable human activity and
suffixes it with ". . . on an iPhone".
Another possibility is to patent every existing machine in every conceivable
shape that it does not presently come in. Example: the parallelogram iPhone.
With hexagonal corners.
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