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Now it's time to address the root cause of this mess. Make the patent examination system better at vetting claims and looking for prior art. It's too easy to ge

Now it's time to address the root cause of this mess. Make the patent examination system better at vetting claims and looking for prior art. It's too easy to get patents issued. (Said he, who has a few patents to his name.) I don't suppose it's feasible for the Patent Office to crowdsource the examination process: patent applications aren't public. But they could surely hire some people, or a company or two, to use the 'toobz to look for prior art.

snarf21 4y ago
It is a problem on two fronts: 1) The USPTO office is criminally under funded. You have people making $75K being given mere days to sort out a new patent application. 2) Say you even have a PhD in some field. In three years, you may be completely out of your element with new advances. Now think about people who have been there 20 years I think the solutions are fairly simple for software patents Software patents are only valid for 3 years Software patents aren't transferable, they are only licensable and have to be licensed on the same terms to everyone (this means the patent is always owned by the creators) Software patents have to have a dissertation defense where they have to present to multiple examiners. We need people to push back on things that are "Super common prior art thing but on a PDA"