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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 19 2012 @ 11:51 PM EST |
How hard is the process to salvage them? If it's reached this stage, is it now
hard for Apple(or anyone in that position) to argue 'this prior art isn't valid'
or is it more likely to be 'look, you're going to lose this patent unless you
can /really/ convince me that this prior art isn't applicable, but from all the
paperwork submitted, and the spotlight of people looking, I can't just rubber
stamp this like I did the initial application, so the burden of proof is on you
to show how this is deserving a patent, and if you can't, or not to a good
level, you've lost it'?
One can imagine that the patent office will be a /bit/ twitchy as it makes their
initial ruling look bad.
For added fun, shame Samsung can't now sue the Patent Office for all the time
wasted for a bad patent. At least cover the court costs for the monies they've
spent defending themselves from a bad patent (that would then be applied as
fines to the company who submitted the bad patent to start with, so everyone has
reason to be honest about these things if there's a monetary cost to being
wrong/dishonest).
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