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But on the other hand reproducing the result without reading the patent, should be able to invalidate said patent. If I don't care how you achieved the one clic
by venomsnake 11y ago
But on the other hand reproducing the result without reading the patent, should be able to invalidate said patent. If I don't care how you achieved the one click purchase button, I should be able to have my implementation on my page.
- JulianMorrison 11y agoInvalidating patents may not be so hard in the abstract, but the trouble is you have to fight a long and legally technical court case to do it. With no certainty of winning even if you are right.
- rrmm 11y agoThat's too low of a standard imo: just knowing something is possible and what that specific thing is, confers a lot of useful information.
- JulianMorrison 11y agoHowever, that argument also suggests that trade secrets are not much of a barrier to innovation.
- rrmm 11y agoIt definitely depends on the invention in question. Consider the case of nuclear weapons. The first big leap is that the energy of fission can be made to be explosively released. Once you know that this is the case, most people in the field might be able to come up with something along the lines of a gun-type warhead. On the other hand, implosion devices, even if you know they are possible, still require a huge amount of work and design studies to make work reliably. Knowing that they are possible isn't the hard part--making it work is.