Reference: Speech given by USPTO Director Andre Iancu to the Eastern District of Texas Bar Association https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/10/19/iancu-risk-takers-pate...
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
> paying fishermen for the fish they didn't catch. TBH that doesn't sound like an awful bad idea.
What do you mean? Why?
Ocean fish are a well-known example of the tragedy of the commons, where too many independent fishermen will wipe out the local fish population, leading to less fish for everybody. This is traditionally dealt with by
(1) Informal norms among the fishermen as to how much fishing you should do. This system is not resilient to immigrants, who don't know the local norms (and may, not unreasonably, feel that the local norms already allot all of the fish to established fishermen), so fishing communities are often fiercely resistant to newcomers.
(2) Legal limits on how much fish you can catch. The idea is that an authority will determine the total quantity of fish to be harvested, and then allot rights to harvest smaller quantities than that piecemeal. Under this system, taking fish without an appropriate license is a crime.
You could move to a system more like our agricultural subsidies (paying people for the pigs they didn't raise), by giving money to anyone who owns a fishing trawler but didn't bring in any fish. But that seems obviously insane compared to the permitting system.
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#13Patent trolls would be OK if they couldn’t go after small companies. What’s worse is they prioritize small companies. In fact, buying patents and then suing makes IP from fundamentally valuable. I am generally OK with that, but not when it discourages startup ecosystems which are a huge source of real innovation. What I’d love to see would be the democrat party to refocus their policies to shift towards small busines…
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#14Patent trolls would be OK if they couldn’t go after small companies. What’s worse is they prioritize small companies. In fact, buying patents and then suing makes IP from fundamentally valuable. I am generally OK with that, but not when it discourages startup ecosystems which are a huge source of real innovation. What I’d love to see would be the democrat party to refocus their policies to shift towards small busines…
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Not equal apparently : https://youtu.be/mICxKmCjF-4
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#15Reference: Speech given by USPTO Director Andre Iancu to the Eastern District of Texas Bar Association https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/10/19/iancu-risk-takers-pate...
Yikes,
thats pretty bad.
In a single brush he dismisses those small business horror stories as “fairy tails”. Not to get to political, but the with the current us political environment it’s not entirely surprising.
Also using last century examples ( IBM and 3com ) is a little strange.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Not equal apparently : https://youtu.be/mICxKmCjF-4
A title of “Admit it. The Republicans have broken politics” and being published by Vox fills me with confidence that this will be an unbiased report based solely in fact. Definitely.
This is clearly an opinion and not news nor fact.
The real fact is that Republicans are American, just like Democrats. We are all responsible for breaking our country. Every. Single. One. Of. Us.
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#17The patent system was broken from the start. The incentives are all wrong, as USPTO officers get paid more, the more patents they approve. It's like paying fishermen for the fish they didn't catch.
This isn't how it works in the UK (or elsewhere AFAIK), so do you consider it's only the USPTO that's broken?
If it were differently administered would you be fine with it?
If the UKIPO is granting invalid patents the checks are that anyone can petition the comptroller to check the validity of a patent, anyone can submit prior art for the examiner's consideration. Then, a patent that's invalid should be useless in court and just accrue the holder their own, and the defendants costs.
In practice companies go for invalid patents because they can lawyer their way out, but that's the court system that's broken then.
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#18Patent trolls would be OK if they couldn’t go after small companies. What’s worse is they prioritize small companies. In fact, buying patents and then suing makes IP from fundamentally valuable. I am generally OK with that, but not when it discourages startup ecosystems which are a huge source of real innovation. What I’d love to see would be the democrat party to refocus their policies to shift towards small busines…
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Note that “Democrat Party” is a slur created by Republicans. The name of the party is the Democratic Party.
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#19We've been targeted by a patent troll and as a small business (less than 5 employees) it absolutely shook us to our core. Thankfully a lawyer took us up pro bono and the trolls backed off. I'm saddened to think of all the businesses that weren't as lucky. This needs to be fixed.
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Note that “Democrat Party” is a slur created by Republicans. The name of the party is the Democratic Party.
Never knew that. Wikipedia does confirm that Democratic Party members dislike the term.
Still though, a slur? Sticks and stones may break my bones but words may never hurt me. Grow up.