Patent Troll Threatens Twitter
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Patent Troll Threatens Twitter
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#2I work with several Russian folks. As they tell it, if you open a business in Russia, you end up paying bribes or "protection money" to mafia and government officials, just to keep your doors open.
As it turns out, we have this in the US also.
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#3I thought that calling patent infringement based on a patent you applied for is illegal. I thought you have to have been awarded the actual patent.
My understanding of patent laws is near non-existant, though. I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong.
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#4I thought that calling patent infringement based on a patent you applied for is illegal. I thought you have to have been awarded the actual patent. My understanding of patent laws is near non-existant, though. I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong.
I'm not an expert either, but one thing to keep in mind is that they're not calling patent infringement just yet, they're just subtly pointing out it might be.
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#5I thought that calling patent infringement based on a patent you applied for is illegal. I thought you have to have been awarded the actual patent. My understanding of patent laws is near non-existant, though. I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong.
I believe you are correct. Moreover, since every rails tutorial know to man builds a twitter/microblogging/messaging clone, odds are likely that this will not be awarded simply because the application's technology is obvious at this point.
I may be too optimistic though.
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#6The article doesn't mention this, but their patent application actually has already been allowed. It's just a matter of waiting for the USPTO to issue it.
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#7How annoying are all these people just acting on grey areas in patents?? How are new start ups meant to thrive in this market when every two minutes someone is being sued for not having the appropriate license??
Have these people nothing better to do with their time? And moreover, who is allowing these stupid patents through that are so vague and apply to so many different sites?
I my opinion, if you file for a patent and don't use it in x amount of time then it should be revoked and allow someone else to use it. I don't know if this is already the case but all these patent trolls are doing my head in, GET A PROPER JOB!
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#8Maybe Twitter can convince Google to sue Kootol for infringing on their logo.
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#9I work with several Russian folks. As they tell it, if you open a business in Russia, you end up paying bribes or "protection money" to mafia and government officials, just to keep your doors open. As it turns out, we have this in the US also.
A business in Russia has a somewhat fixed number of people threatening it. And if it is able to make deals with them, it can function, sort of. Whereas there is no limit to the number of patent trolls that can threaten a software business, and no limit on how much they can demand or how much havoc they can wreak.
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#10How annoying are all these people just acting on grey areas in patents?? How are new start ups meant to thrive in this market when every two minutes someone is being sued for not having the appropriate license?? Have these people nothing better to do with their time? And moreover, who is allowing these stupid patents through that are so vague and apply to so many different sites? I my opinion, if you file for a paten…
And moreover, who is allowing these stupid patents through that are so vague and apply to so many different sites?
The USPTO has fixed resources, and the number of patent applications has been growing exponentially for years. Also, if they grant a patent the person filing goes away, but if they deny it the filer will just come back with amendments or appeals again and again and again.
If we gave the USPTO more money or, heck, even let it keep all the money it collected in fees the problem wouldn't be nearly as bad.