Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun?
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Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun?
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Re: Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun?
#2Does it cost a large company more to file a shitty patent than it does the community to crush it?
Re: Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun?
#3Does it cost a large company more to file a shitty patent than it does the community to crush it?
It costs the companies quite a bit, and a reasonably knowledgable person about 10-15 minutes to find prior art that, once discovered by someone at the USPTO, can help to fast-track a denial. In any case, you're at least helping to make sure that none of the ridiculous claims get through (these are common in patents, just to see if they can get away with it since they're already spending the money)
Re: Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun?
#4Why on earth i did not have read anywhere about USPTO officials return a letter to this so called patent troll with simple reply: "Explain this pattern in layman language."
USPTO officials should have the power to inquire pattern applicants about their pattern until complete understanding, not to work alone and try to understand it by them self. It is hard to understand something technical, and it is utmost difficult to try understanding technical stuff with only 'lawyer' language as interface.
The fact is, many of this pattern applicant try to hide their 'Obviousness' of their pattern behind lawyered up and jargon filled language that proven to be hard to understand and open to misinterpretation.
Re: Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun?
#5Can you write off the time spent as a charitable donation?
Re: Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun?
#6Why on earth i did not have read anywhere about USPTO officials return a letter to this so called patent troll with simple reply: "Explain this pattern in layman language." USPTO officials should have the power to inquire pattern applicants about their pattern until complete understanding, not to work alone and try to understand it by them self. It is hard to understand something technical, and it is utmost difficult…
Agreed! A huge part of what you can do to help is just parse the legalese into human language, so that any knowledgable person can see right through it.
Re: Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun?
#7Can you write off the time spent as a charitable donation?
no
edit: source: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p526/ar02.html#en_US_2013_pu...
Re: Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun?
#8Does it cost a large company more to file a shitty patent than it does the community to crush it?
Filing a patent application costs around $180-$280 [1], not including the other Patent Office fees for Examination/Maintenance. Add onto that the legal fees for marking up the claims, charged out in the $XXX/hr range and you are looking at a few thousand easily.
A quick search turned up a 2011 American Intellectual Property Law Association survey suggesting a median cost of $10k [2].
Having in house legal team to take care of it may reduce the costs but Patent Office fees still make it at least a grand to get one. If the community can chip in a few hours to crush the patent then I would think it is time well spent.
[1] http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee010114.htm [2] http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-average-cost-of-a-software-pa...
Re: Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun?
#9Why on earth i did not have read anywhere about USPTO officials return a letter to this so called patent troll with simple reply: "Explain this pattern in layman language." USPTO officials should have the power to inquire pattern applicants about their pattern until complete understanding, not to work alone and try to understand it by them self. It is hard to understand something technical, and it is utmost difficult…
Worse, patent obfuscation is baldly contrary to the purpose of patents, which is to make the knowledge contained in them available to the public.
Were someone to start a startup where users got paid-by-the-view for making educational videos, that would not be too far off from the original intent of patents.
Re: Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun?
#10Can you write off the time spent as a charitable donation?
no edit: source: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p526/ar02.html#en_US_2013_pu...
Wait, can lawyers write off pro-bono work? If so, why can't we?
Edit: They can't. However, if an employer were to pay you to work for a qualified organization, they could write off that expense.