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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 09:22 AM EDT |
A company should not suffer for losing honest, good-faith lawsuits that they
initiate. However, they should be penalized for frivolously pursuing
'ownership' (patents) despite well-published prior art as well as for initiating
lawsuits when those skilled in the art would reasonably recognize the patent as
bogus. The US government may have granted the patent, but, as part of the
bargain, the 'inventors' have a duty to file for patents on inventions that
they, as people that are 'skilled in the art' are new, useful, and not
anticipated by existing, public prior art. In this responsibility, many
companies have been negligent. The examiner has a duty to do his/her work to
test for utility and novelty, but that does not excuse the company. It's time
to start prosecuting companies for filing patents on ideas/items that inventors
would reasonably have anticipated as obvious or previously commercialized or
published. No inventor is perfect, just as no driver is perfect. However, we
can still end up in trouble for being negligent or irresponsible.
If we are going to have a patent system (and I still think <KNOW> that
software should be off that table), then companies should be able to defend a
valid patent. However, if a litigating company has failed in its diligence to
only litigate over a reasonably valid patent, whether that be to file for a
patent or file over a patent, then said company should be open to punishment,
with those punishments being proportioned to market or defendant potential
impact.
mcinsand
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 12:17 PM EDT |
Just because a government said it, don't make it so.
(in fact you could probably take the contrary to the bank)
Just because the PTO issued a patent, don't make it so.
If a Jury says it is so, then it is so.
Provided that the Jury correctly followed it's instructions, otherwise all bets
are off.
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