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How can anyone argue that any of this is encouraging innovation?
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 08 2012 @ 02:57 AM EST
Yeah! Trouble is, the innovation is happening in the US court rooms, not in the
field of the patent. Imagine how much better things would be if the energy
expended in suing and defending against these patents was spent innovating!
Trouble is, the lawyers would lose out big time.

YellowShed

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How can anyone argue that any of this is encouraging innovation?
Authored by: darrellb on Saturday, December 08 2012 @ 07:38 AM EST
Courts eventually see argument in the absence of facts and law for what it
is. Meritless. The problem in our society is that it takes too long and costs
too much.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 08 2012 @ 12:15 PM EST
Of course its encouraging innovation!

Didn't you read how it contributes $40 billion to the "industry"?*
Anything that generates $40 billion MUST be innovation!

*(That was a lawyer talking about the legal industry...)

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How can anyone argue that any of this is encouraging innovation?
Authored by: ukjaybrat on Monday, December 10 2012 @ 09:37 AM EST
"How can anyone argue that any of this is encouraging innovation?"

People that can't see how the USPTO is a puppet right now still think that
patent protection leads to innovation like it did in the days of olde.

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of
knowledge" ~S. Hawking

And these older folks "think they know" patent litigation is
benefitting innovation.

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IANAL

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