David,
You wrote:
"IBM patents are mostly pathetic."
I understand it as (almost all) IBM patents are pathetic. I disagree
with such generalisation.
Now you write:
"It was me that said they were pathetic"
Which can be understood as SOME patents are pathetic. Note: not
"mostly", and not "IBM patents".
English is not my native language, but I see important difference
between those two statements.
My opinion - I sustain what I wrote, with no changes or distortions.
Maybe it is not obvious, but I didn't say there are no pathetic patents
at all. However I think such patents are exceptions, not majority.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 12.10.2020 o 04:39, David Crayford pisze:
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://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/stupid-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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