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New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

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Re: New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

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The policymaking with regards to industry is functioning more like a clearinghouse, where every interest group gets to have their targeted policy, than a coalition, where the event that one interest group's target policy would hamstring another member would result in dealmaking and some sort of compromise. Certain industries like the steel industry receive steeply protectionist trade restraints, but they're also being de-prioritized in favor of non-producing vexatious litigators who stop them from innovating. In essence this is similar to how some industries are seeing major policy-driven price increases on their outputs and inputs. Multiply that by every lobby and that's all I can interpret out of the big picture.

Re: New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

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post #4

Maybe it's time for a patent pool for non-trolls covering patent to behavior.

I can't parse this sentence. I even tried reading out loud. I thought maybe to=troll but still I can't understand it.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20080270152

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070244837

Re: New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

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We should have notarized LLM models for this. Timestamp your LLMs, put them in a notarized database. Then, if you en up in a patent lawsuit, just fire up the relevant LLM, and ask it in simple terms to reproduce troll's claims.

For what purpose? If it's for prior art, the prior at must have been publicly available, so a private LLM wouldn't work. Perhaps I'm missing your point, though.

Re: New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

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> Congress Created IPR to Protect the Public—Not Just Patent Owners For this administration, this is a problem to be solved. Big business are the masters now and we need to make it easier for them to step on small business by any means.

Big business isn't really monolithic when it comes to patents. Some large tech companies love patents (MSFT, e.g.), while others (Google, e.g.) seem to abhor them.

Also, the troll problem is a problem for big business, not a benefit to big business.

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