Authored by: nsomos on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 03:09 PM EDT |
Parent suggests that the rubber band patent inventor might
have forgotten about code they wrote earlier.
While I can believe having forgotten about writing code,
forgetting about a Patent is a little bit different.
It is unfair to equate forgetting about written code,
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Authored by: FreeChief on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 12:25 AM EDT |
My guess is that someone wrote some code, the legal department took it and wrote
a patent application, the manager of the manager signed it and forgot about. A
few years later the same thing happened again when somebody else had a similar
idea. Nobody who had anything to do with the first patent application even saw
the second one, except for the manager, who just signs the form and takes the
credit.
The inventor was dispossessed long ago. An ignoramus is the
absentee landlord of this "intellectual
property".
— Programmer in Chief
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 10:05 AM EDT |
applying for patents on throw-away code snippets - things which are
so thoroughly immemorable that the original developer might actually not
remember having done it before
Applying for patents on everything
under the sun is one thing (and one reason I don't blaming Apple for doing it).
The USPTO granting all of the junk patents is the real issue at
hand.
It's the same thing as a lawyer asking for everything under the
sun. It's a great tactic because you never know when a judge is going to say
yes.
~ukjaybrat - IANAL
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