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Surely if you've got a brand new patent, by a company no one's heard of, and it's already being infringed by Apple, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, AOL, Faceb
by cubicle67 15y ago
Surely if you've got a brand new patent, by a company no one's heard of, and it's already being infringed by Apple, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, AOL, Facebook, Twitter, Nokia, Foursquare, IBM, LinkedIn, MySpace, RIM, Quora, Salesforce, Twitpic, Ubermedia and The Iconfactory, it's a bit of a stretch to claim it's novel and non-obvious?
- ams6110 15y agoTo those of us who are software devs, so many of these patents don't seem to pass the "non-obvious" test. Who evaluates the novelty of a patent application? Does the USPTO employ experts in the field to exam these claims, or is it up to whatever random examiner picks up the next application in the queue?
- georgemcbay 15y agoAFAICT these days they just rubber stamp whatever comes through the door and let the lawyers figure it out later.