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What would you expect from someone who thinks that nothing more than the idea of registering a demo constitutes "technology"?
(Sorry about the "cheap shot"... I realize that the problems are with the laws, not the patent examiners. But humor is the only way I can approach this subject without tears.)
Most other crimes require intent, patent infringement does not. This is the problem I've always had with patents, but I've never been able to articulate it before.
There needs to be a website or something to shame known patent and trolls AND THEIR ATTORNEYS.
>And yet, the technology in question is a system that stops people from pirating their software and helps them make money. Well if you think it's so unfair, don't use the tech. Do something else. No one is forcing you to use the technology. Bullshit. Mojang isn't using Uniloc's tech. They're writing their own tech using a bloody obvious idea.
Not to mention Uniloc doesn't even have technology. They do not create or sell software.
Uniloc's surprising honesty:
>And it fits our straightforward development model. Look at many ideas. Pick an outstanding one. Patent it. Commercialize it. Reap the rewards.
Uniloc's vast knowledge of technology:
>After all, Bell Labs did develop some fairly transformative technology like radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser and the UNIX programming language.
Where is the expert? Ric Richardson is not an attorney, let alone a patent attorney. Ric's comments are uninformed, and probably not worth responding to. [ http://ricrichardson.blogspot.co.uk/p/about-ric.html ]
There needs to be a website or something to shame known patent and trolls AND THEIR ATTORNEYS.
Patents are quite explicitly not there to stop people "stealing a technology". You can already do this by keeping your invention secret (which many jurisdictions grant some form of protection).
The purpose of patents is to encourage inventors to publicly disclose their inventions so that others can benefit from and build on this knowledge, accelerating the rate of technological advance. In return the public grants the inventor a limited period of monopoly on the invention.
The patent system currently in place in the western world is not achieving the goals that the society has set it, mostly because patents are granted for "inventions" whose public disclosure has no value (because they're obvious or over broad). What we get instead are huge companies with massive patent arsenals stopping new companies from getting into business, patent trolls extorting money, and independent inventors whose patents are worthless since they cannot bear the cost of defending them against large companies.