Is this kind of behavior what you are describing as "defensive"?
https://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044.html
You said IBM only file defensive patents. Who made you the gospel of truth?
On 2020-10-12 4:10 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
What part of "defensive patent" don't you understand. The article you cited
made it abundantly clear that the USPTO is broken. IBM is far from the only company to
file defensive patents. The intent is not to prevent others from using the technique, but
to prevent others from successfully patenting it.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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It was me that said they were pathetic and I stand by that remark.
There's a website that has a "stupid patent of the month" which is
dominated by IBM.
Here's a good one!
https://secure-web.cisco.com/1-jcLI-dk2XuBOqXGuXTrUxABiJbwOwRqbBNDBV0YW0k6jNpNfVVfUOZWCv2ybSGyDQgPAURzeZGDiFKNNexudcJIMR6CUgByBvhwvogf0CmuXgE3pngzNnmyFcStgw2ydJBAd5Mex27YJ6BllXpQ5ckRZd8SXcunqSd7pPa-_7sy-k_nKVwsW0vvUte9MEkwSShbJtXbcXUZAadgNpKwE5P3eG8vWb_hYyV4r5nej-pfdPSlVifozfOJNsesF6vRhHgt7YVO9X36MdVF39gP1Cvd1Xh7Ttq40a5FR_oYAoeiGAM6gx6QfFfgSYJyekP7ZmNQtYT2KhnDRjsqnh96njpO8_aeVsVm_n-vhZtLec9ErK1pxeMPEUXua2DdM_3qqxZzaI0uSOuFQJUUdcFgElBqyEYbzjcvD0me7JaTaaS6RGGaSNrlf9alf6g0yp9DJhlOypIOsXe9PC0lVLok4g/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eff.org%2Fdeeplinks%2F2017%2F02%2Fstupid-patent-month-ibm-patents-out-office-email
A lot of my colleagues are ex IBMers and quite a few of them have their
names on patents. A lot of those patents are stupid! Any product feature
that they designed
that was considered novel they lodged a patent request for. They are the
first ones to acknowledge that the process was brain-damaged. IBM wanted
to use patents
as bargaining chips.
On 2020-10-12 12:27 AM, Bill Johnson wrote:
I agree. It wasn’t me who said they were pathetic.
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On Sunday, October 11, 2020, 12:26 PM, R.S. <[email protected]>
wrote:
Patents are not pathetic. Other companies still make new patents.
Including those like Microsoft and Google.
Patents are still valid and important even if some company have only few
of them or cannot make any.
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