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Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check
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Christopher C. Stacy |
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Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check |
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Sat, 24 Jul 2004 03:42:27 GMT |
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>>>>> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:28:03 -0500, Isaac ("Isaac") writes:
Isaac> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:09:20 -0700, AES/newspost <siegman@stanford.edu>
wrote:
>> In article <JKGdnYDhU43AaJ3cRVn-og@giganews.com>,
>> "I approved this message" <nospam@email.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> The problem with business method patents is that USPTO isn't so good at
>>> searching the prior art in these fields.
>>
>> The problem is, and continues to be, that it's way, way too cheap and
>> easy for an applicant (often jocularly referred to as an "inventor") to
>> get an undeserved and invalid patent, with little or no subsequent
>> downside for his/her having done so.
>>
>>
>>> If you think the patent is invalid, why don't you challenge it?
>>
>> Maybe because the system makes it inordinately difficult and expensive
>> to do so, with a highly uncertain outcome -- and maybe because the OP
>> simply doesn't have the deep pockets required to even initiate, much
>> less seriously pursue, a challenge.
Isaac> Or alternatively because he has no real interest other than
Isaac> academic and would not spend the money challenging the patent
Isaac> even if he had it.
He might have an interest in the potential liability and marketability of
an invention that he might be contemplating, translating to a decision of
whether to make a major investment of personal time and resources.
It would be terrible for to suppose that all inventions must be initiated
by only the very few mega-corporations.
- Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check, theodp, 2004/07/07
- Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check, I approved this message, 2004/07/23
- Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check, AES/newspost, 2004/07/23
- Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check, Lee Hollaar, 2004/07/24
- Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check, AES/newspost, 2004/07/24
- Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check, Lee Hollaar, 2004/07/24
- Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check, AES/newspost, 2004/07/24
- Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check, Lee Hollaar, 2004/07/24
- Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check, Tim Jackson, 2004/07/24
- Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check, Lee Hollaar, 2004/07/24
- Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check, Tim Jackson, 2004/07/24
- Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check, telford, 2004/07/26
- Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check, Tim Jackson, 2004/07/26