AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
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AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
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Re: AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
#2Read that as Parents... might be a good idea?
Re: AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
#3Read that as Parents... might be a good idea?
Re: AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
#4If you violate a patent unknowingly, you are liable for damages. If you violate a patent you know exists, you are liable for treble damages.
The only rational thing for someone who actually makes stuff to do is to not read any patents, ever, as a matter of general policy.
This might not be the socially responsible answer; we should all be fighting the patent madness in our industry. It is, however, the most logical course of action. It puts the lie to the whole "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" thing, but that's where we are.
Re: AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
#5Read that as Parents... might be a good idea?
Like http://parenting.stackexchange.com ?
Ha! By far the worst of the stackexchange network sites I've seen. My wife and I sometimes read it for laughs.... Funny that people who can come up with a dozen ways to solve a trivial programming problem, when confronted with a parenting issue, invariably offer some useless brute-force based advice like ”show the kid who's boss”, or ”keep them in line”...
Re: AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
#6If you violate a patent unknowingly, you are liable for damages. If you violate a patent you know exists, you are liable for treble damages. The only rational thing for someone who actually makes stuff to do is to not read any patents, ever, as a matter of general policy. This might not be the socially responsible answer; we should all be fighting the patent madness in our industry. It is, however, the most logical c…
It is definitely true that a lot of companies over-protective legal departments have persuaded their engineers never to read patents.
I don't think that you should optimize for the case where you've actually lost a patent suit. First of all, that's a pretty rare case. But more importantly, it's cowardice. It's the moral equivalent, in my mind, of carefully crossing to the other side of the street when you see the neighborhood bully approach. Yeah, it's "the most logical course of action," but the better course of action is to get your own gang together and shut them the f* down!
Re: AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
#7I was incredibly skeptical of this initially, but this is a collaborative effort between SE, the USPTO, and Google.
I have some hope that this is a good step towards fixing things. Hopefully that statement sounds cautiously optimistic enough.
Re: AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
#8Part of me is cringing that each Patent gets its own tag, given that it's likely there won't often be more than a few topics per patent.
Re: AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
#9Part of me is cringing that each Patent gets its own tag, given that it's likely there won't often be more than a few topics per patent.
Re: AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
#10It's a shame the patent office cannot/will not crowdsource patent research before approval.
I bet if an examiner posted each patent application during review, within 24 hours prior art would be posted for each one, most especially software patents.
Maybe we can get congress to pass a law - ha, nevermind what am I even thinking...