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Patents are close to completely useless as a form of documentation. It's not valuable. You may be thinking about old patents where people wrote real engineerin
by marcosdumay 2y ago
Patents are close to completely useless as a form of documentation. It's not valuable.
You may be thinking about old patents where people wrote real engineering information with real details on them that excluded non-working alternatives. Patents are not like that anymore.
- tightbookkeeper 2y agoThen that sounds like a management problem, not a fundamental problem with the concept of patent lawyers and clerks which this poster claimed was a “brain drain”.
- marcosdumay 2y agoIt's absolutely a patent review problem. It's probably not caused by individual clerks, as each one of them can't cause something like this alone, but it shows on their work.
- freejazz 2y agoPatents have an inherent tension between being as explicit as possible, and leaving enough generality so that it's not trivial to infringe. It's not supposed to be an exact recipe.