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How many of these examples do we need to see before something is done with the US patent system?
by ZeroMinx 16y ago
How many of these examples do we need to see before something is done with the US patent system?
- chapel 16y agoProbably not until the Government gets served papers for something they are doing that infringes on a random patent some troll is holding. At this point most companies consider it cost of doing business; changing it could possibly weaken or remove the leverage they have with their patent warchest.
- true_religion 16y agoEven if that occurs, the US government can make use of a patent without paying fees under something akin to eminent domain laws.
- nickpinkston 16y agoI thought that it has to be deemed a matter or national security for that to happen? Then again that's just a signature away...
- cosgroveb 16y agoYou mean Senator. The Government has sovereign immunity, but if a ridiculous patent were to seriously threaten the family business of a sitting Senator we might see something get done.
- duke_sam 16y agoPossibly patents on methods of raising money online for political campaigns or patenting a method for organising large groups of people to congregate in a public area for the purposes of hearing political speech.
- Owesome 16y agojust one more and then they'll do something about it
- brlewis 16y agoWhat we need is a compilation of examples where a software patent hindered or threatened to hinder innovation.
- hessenwolf 16y agoCan we put in Amazon's one-click wonder? Why should we have to make our buy process slower just to avoid a spurious patent?
- pavel_lishin 16y agoWhat incentive is there for someone in the U.S. government to change the patent system?
- alexqgb 16y agoCurrently, none. As expensive as the patent system may be, the largest companies who deal with it are still in a position to treat it like a basic cost of doing business; one that happens to be so high that it can protect them from the truly disruptive innovations that are unlikely to come from their peers in the field. As long as elections are privately financed cartels that depend on trolls to scare off potentially competitive startups, the patent system is going to stay broken. If and when we manage to reduce lobbyists to mere lobbyists, and not lobbyist/financiers, then sanity may prevail.
- jrockway 16y agoWhat incentive is there for someone on the Supreme Court not to interpret the Constitution as saying, "Supreme Court Justices can randomly take everyone's money for no reason"? Integrity. I know we talk about the 24 hour spin cycle and how all politicians are just mouthpieces for the MPAA, but some of them probably take a few minutes out of their term to think about how to make the world a better place. A few of them even try to do so.
- krakensden 16y ago>> What incentive is there for someone on the Supreme Court not to interpret the Constitution as saying, "Supreme Court Justices can randomly take everyone's money for no reason"? > Integrity. You mean impeachment.
- hrabago 16y agoI was hoping the BlackBerry patent issues from a few years ago would prompt our lawmakers to finally fix the problems, but even then they ignored it.