House Bill for Patent Office Reform Nearly Finished
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Re: House Bill for Patent Office Reform Nearly Finished
#2Doesn't look like they are working on the real problems at all, and are instead creating others.
First person to invent won't matter, only who pays the fee first? UGH. Way to discourage innovation and encourage patent trolls. With that they'll be able to watch new products on the market and try to file patents on everything, then sue the person who actually invented it.
Re: House Bill for Patent Office Reform Nearly Finished
#3I don't see any reference in here to reform of software patents and such. Is this reform purely financial?
Re: House Bill for Patent Office Reform Nearly Finished
#4Doesn't look like they are working on the real problems at all, and are instead creating others. First person to invent won't matter, only who pays the fee first? UGH. Way to discourage innovation and encourage patent trolls. With that they'll be able to watch new products on the market and try to file patents on everything, then sue the person who actually invented it.
> they'll be able to watch new products on the market and try to file patents on everything, then sue the person who actually invented it
No, they won't. If something was on the market before you filed, you are not entitled to a patent. That's how prior art and statutory bars work.
Re: House Bill for Patent Office Reform Nearly Finished
#5This is the opposite of reform.
Re: House Bill for Patent Office Reform Nearly Finished
#6"The bill generally updates the process for challenging patents and would change the patent system to one thatawards a patent to the first inventor to file a specific claim.
Currently, the first person to invent something has patent priority, whether or not he is the first to file an application."
First to file trumps first to invent? That sounds awful and a step backwards.
Re: House Bill for Patent Office Reform Nearly Finished
#7Even "reform" has become doublespeak now. It actually means "like it is now, only moreso."
Re: House Bill for Patent Office Reform Nearly Finished
#8I haven't read the proposed law, but from previous commentaries the big issue raised was that the invention didn't actually have to be on the market. You could patent an idea. If this is in fact the case, a new form of patent troll could emerge - think tanks that brain storm ideas and file preemptive patents.
Re: House Bill for Patent Office Reform Nearly Finished
#9I haven't read the proposed law, but from previous commentaries the big issue raised was that the invention didn't actually have to be on the market. You could patent an idea. If this is in fact the case, a new form of patent troll could emerge - think tanks that brain storm ideas and file preemptive patents.
You just described Intellectual Ventures exactly.
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