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Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check
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Isaac |
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Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check |
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Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:28:03 -0500 |
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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.
Or alternatively because he has no real interest other than
academic and would not spend the money challenging the patent
even if he had it.
Isaac
- 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