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PatentHackers – A new platform to help companies kill patent trolls

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Re: PatentHackers – A new platform to help companies kill patent trolls

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Post by jimiwen »

yiting1128 wrote: post #3

Patent hackers, huh? I think I like it.

There are plenty of bugs in a patent. Each patent examiner only has 10-20 to "examine" a patent application, many bad and "dangerous" patents get granted. I think using a hacker's approach can weed out bad patents like bugs!!

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Post by curated22 »

Community based (even ones centered around IP..not necessarily geographically based) things always fascinate me and get me giddy. Plus...the idea is brilliant. It might not cater to the general public (like quirky does) but that's ok. Doesn't need to . It caters to those people with a love of data and understanding and want to be apart of something (and maybe make some $$).

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Post by jamesshen »

To Life360:(If you see this) Dear sir, we are here to help you. We understand how painful it is, and we believe that "Mr. Piece of Sh*t" should striped off all his bogus patents. We leverage expert crowd(2000+,growing) from all around the world to find "bugs" in Mr. Malcom Beyer's patents.

Re: PatentHackers – A new platform to help companies kill patent trolls

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Post by akurilin »

Here's the real question though: does knowing that there exists prior art to a certain patent in question at all change the need to go through a painfully lengthy and exorbitantly expensive legal process to prove that one's innocent?

Or does this still require a company to be as well capitalized as Newegg in order to be able to withstand a patent attack, and thus doesn't really matter for the majority of us?

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