WTF patents

Why though ?

Graham

Lack of manpower, lack of brains in the remaining bureaucracy :-(

...Jim Thompson

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Oh, please hurry!

;-P Rich

...and the number one answer is... The USPTO is not a cost center, it is a *profit* center for the US government. The USPS should be so successfull.

I guess because there is no disincentive. They are paid whenever a patent is filed, and they are not penalized when a patent is thrown out. If you could sue for wrongful grant of patent, like you can sue for wrongful arrest...

I could sum up my whole gripe: "the 'nonobvious' criterion should be enforced much more strictly."

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Publish it in volumes. That way when you drop over quill in hand, some of it will already be out there.

BTW: Please make that a lot of volumes.

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Make the stamp for junk mail $50 :>

Hey, they're "creating wealth". It's the Republican way of doing business.

So what if it's bogus. IP is IP. And if a sleazy lawyer can use it as a power dildo to ream out the unprotected, that's capitalism, 21st century style. Welcome to the postindustrial Information Economy.

Mark Zenier snipped-for-privacy@eskimo.com Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

Too right. The general technical incompetence of patent examiners is really deplorable. That's what we get for elevating form over function [bureaurocracy].

Considering the amount of joint damage it contributes to letter carriers as compared to first class mail, that price may be too low.