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Thoroughness versus brevity...

Authored by: ukjaybrat on Monday, January 07 2013 @ 10:41 AM EST

"a severe penalty has to be levied on a patent found to be
invalid on re-examination"

the problem with that though is that it is so hard to find
out whether or not your patent is invalidated by a prior
patent because the language is so vague you don't know what
to look for. So it's possible someone can actually make a
mistake.

IMO, the appropriate action would be to charge companies a
lot more money for patent applications. This will reduce
troll-like behavior (companies who apply for a hundred
thousand patents hoping a few will land them in a $1b court
case - like throwing a fistful of darts at a dartboard and
hoping one hits the bulls-eye). Then again that would hurt
the little guy that really does want to protect his one
really good idea.

I got an idea, why not just make all software patents
invalid. why has no one ever thought of that before?

---
IANAL

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