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Reply from non-USA who has worked in USA. Many companies already spam the patent office with low-quality/non-existent inventions. One put a quota on us for numb
by passwordoops 3y ago
Reply from non-USA who has worked in USA. Many companies already spam the patent office with low-quality/non-existent inventions. One put a quota on us for number of submissions, so that led to at least 200 a year from one firm knowing full well the vast majority would go nowhere. Another would file at least one with every product and delay the evaluation as long as possible to game the system so they could write "patent pending" and attach the veneer of innovation on the marketing material
- dmoy 3y ago> so they could write "patent pending" and attach the veneer of innovation on the marketing material There's another reason too: Having a large number of patents for a given subject matter makes it a veritable arsenal for use against other companies, either offensively or defensively (since a common defense to a lawsuit of patent infringement is a countersuit with your own parent infringement lawsuit). Gotta feed the dancing gorilla