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Steve Jobs Exhibit on Display at U.S. Patent Office Museum
- nostromo 15y agoI'm actually surprised to find out the USPTO think it's within its mission to do such things.
- gcb 15y agoSpecially for a company that recently fights competition with frivolous copyright lawsuits instead of innovation... But then, somebody once said: institutions fight to maintain the problems they were created to address.
- epistasis 15y agoApple is pursing copyright suits? Against whom? Is it about source code?
- rodw 15y agoNot to be dense, but are you saying it's a pleasant surprise or that the USPTO shouldn't be doing this? EDIT: For what it is worth, the USPTO has a mission statement at http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/intro.html http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/intro.html. This isn't clearly within their "mission" except to the extent that it "encourages investment in innovation and fosters entrepreneurial spirit".
- nostromo 15y agoSorry for the ambiguity... I think it's a waste of time and resources.
- apotheon 15y agoI think the USPTO tries to use stuff like this as a way to seem like the good guy, distracting from the way its half-assed approach to managing patents just completely screws so much of the US economy.
- apotheon 15y agoThis absurd cult of personality is way the fuck out of hand.
- pstuart 15y agoHis name is Robert Paulson.
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- rodw 15y agoFWIW, I happen to be within walking distance of the USPTO. I was going to offer to post pictures, but I see the MacRumours article already has them. Independent of the Steve Jobs exhibit, there is also a talking video "portrait" of Woz in the little museum they have there. It's not long, but his portrait is up on a wall along with Edison and Telsa and whatnot. That's a very flattering, if obscure, public compliment. (I haven't been there in a while, Telsa might not actually be there, but there are several famous inventors in the exhibit.) EDIT: There is a little more info (but unfortunately no pictures) on the exhibit Woz is in at http://www.uspto.gov/about/offices/opa/museum.jsp#heading-2 http://www.uspto.gov/about/offices/opa/museum.jsp#heading-2.
- apotheon 15y agos/Telsa/Tesla/ Basically everything Edison supposedly invented was actually pretty much plagiarized by someone else, then credited to himself by way of a patent. Tesla was quite possibly his most-wronged victim. Far from protecting creators, patent law actually enables more effective and insidious means of ripping off the innovators of our culture. Of course the patent office would love Edison, though, because patents were among Edison's favorite tools for screwing over others.