Re: USPTO needs killing
"Major Variola (ret)" wrote: > ...an association of > tree-growers > is suing the USPTO. A year or two ago, in a different forum, someone asked, "What does it take to become a PTO examiner?" I suggested five generations of inbreeding. A patent atty and a couple of software guys then chimed in with "That's not a joke!" horror stories. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
Re: USPTO needs killing
At 11:40 AM 3/23/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Patent office does better than BXA: > >http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24557.html > >Peter Avritch, president of PC Dynamics, told us he was surprised to be >approached this week about what he considered was an "absurd" claim, >based on a patent filed in 1998 - long after the widespread use of >electronic encryption technology. > >"This is a very broad patent, which covers almost everything that saves >encrypted files to disc. It could cover everything from secure laptops >to electronic encryption," he said. Avritch's claims about the scope of the patent and the lack of prior art are both disproven by the text of the patent itself, linked to from the Register article. Software patents are harmful, but let's not lose track of simple facts in our sympathy for someone who got blindsided by a patent. -- Greg Broiles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961
re: USPTO needs killing
The current _Tech Review_ has an article about Tropicana (a div. of PepsiCo) patenting a recipe for mixing OJ from earlier-ripening fruits. The patent office is not supposed to grant patents for *recipes*, and an association of tree-growers is suing the USPTO.
