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I haven't read the proposed law, but from previous commentaries the big issue raised was that the invention didn't actually have to be on the market. You could
by nhebb 15y ago
I haven't read the proposed law, but from previous commentaries the big issue raised was that the invention didn't actually have to be on the market. You could patent an idea. If this is in fact the case, a new form of patent troll could emerge - think tanks that brain storm ideas and file preemptive patents.
- gfunk911 15y agoYou just described Intellectual Ventures exactly.
- sitkack 15y agoThis is not new. Reform would be to have actually created the thing you are patenting and not a loose description of how one might/could build the thing. It shouldn't be patentable unless you have done it.
- anamax 15y ago> You could patent an idea. That's always been true. In fact, "an idea" is the only thing that you can patent. Why do you think that it shouldn't be true? Suppose that my company makes airplanes and I invent a new kind of bearing. What kind of patent protection do you think that I should have? (Should I only be able to claim uses of that bearing in the planes that we make?)