When Bad Patents Hurt Good People: Patent Threat Shuts Down Flight Planning Site
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Re: When Bad Patents Hurt Good People: Patent Threat Shuts Down Flight Planning Site
#5Why is nobody talking about the real issue here: the slashed budget of the USPTO that has made them unable to properly vet patent applications for a decade? The problem isn't the trolls, it's the fact that these bullshit patent requests are being granted in the first place. The USPTO can't afford to have experts review patent applications, and this is the result.
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#6Why is nobody talking about the real issue here: the slashed budget of the USPTO that has made them unable to properly vet patent applications for a decade? The problem isn't the trolls, it's the fact that these bullshit patent requests are being granted in the first place. The USPTO can't afford to have experts review patent applications, and this is the result.
While I totally agree with you (the problem is not actually the trolls) but these kind of patents can be easily identified as trolling.
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#7Why is nobody talking about the real issue here: the slashed budget of the USPTO that has made them unable to properly vet patent applications for a decade? The problem isn't the trolls, it's the fact that these bullshit patent requests are being granted in the first place. The USPTO can't afford to have experts review patent applications, and this is the result.
While I totally agree with you (the problem is not actually the trolls) but these kind of patents can be easily identified as trolling.
By someone who knows what they're doing, sure. Consider, however, the patent for Linked List that was granted: Any programmer would have balked at it, but the unspecialized clerk reviewing it wouldn't have had a clue.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I totally agree with you (the problem is not actually the trolls) but these kind of patents can be easily identified as trolling.
By someone who knows what they're doing, sure. Consider, however, the patent for Linked List that was granted: Any programmer would have balked at it, but the unspecialized clerk reviewing it wouldn't have had a clue.
Whoa Linked Lists got patented?!?! That's crazy. Do you happen to have a link about it, I'm really curious about this.
That's friggin crazy...
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#9Why is nobody talking about the real issue here: the slashed budget of the USPTO that has made them unable to properly vet patent applications for a decade? The problem isn't the trolls, it's the fact that these bullshit patent requests are being granted in the first place. The USPTO can't afford to have experts review patent applications, and this is the result.
I'd argue that:
1.) There are bad feedback loops between speed / quality / price of patent examination and the amount of ridiculous patents issued.
2.) Increasing the budget to improve screening and throughput will lead to an increase in patents submitted - will this increase at a higher / lower rate than their budget? I.e. will new patent submissions bloat the office even more than now?
3.) We could try to increase patent fees to cover costs, but then you'll "hurt the little guy" and fully benefit the IBMs who can afford to blow money like this.
4.) The boundary is quite gray between trolls (IV and others) and institutions with near-troll behavior (IBM's if-it-sticks patent submission methods).
5.) There are higher ratios of bad patents in certain categories: process patents, software, etc.
Conclusion: I bet that reducing the scope of what categories are patentable scales very well in reducing bad patents than any method of trying to make a better filter, because better filters will just lead to more patents to fill the void.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I totally agree with you (the problem is not actually the trolls) but these kind of patents can be easily identified as trolling.
By someone who knows what they're doing, sure. Consider, however, the patent for Linked List that was granted: Any programmer would have balked at it, but the unspecialized clerk reviewing it wouldn't have had a clue.
I'd argue:
The ability for one man to know what "real innovation", is always <, the ability of a team with every incentive of faking them out to overcome.