On 2010-11-21 6:32 PM, Adam Back wrote:
badly. I have my name on a few patents. Three of them originated when someone asked a question and I said after literally 5 seconds of thought, "sure you can do that".
I have similar patents. Further, it is perfectly clear that any patent that is in fact legitimate, is not enforcible. No such patent has ever been upheld in court in recent times. From what happens with existing moronic patents, such as the one click patent, it is apparent that any patent that was actually legitimate, would be so far beyond the legal system that they would have no idea what you were talking about.
Many of the issued patents arent even novel in the sense of "technically slightly different" - prior art is evidently not being respected because few are spending resources protecting it.
No, not so, prior art is not being respected because judges are corrupt or ludicrously incompetent - again, the one click patent is the prize example of judges being corrupt. People *did* spend resources raising prior art.
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