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> What is your reasoning that led to your conclusion that patents should issue before they are qualified to issue? The observation that there are a _ton_ of pa
by frisco 18y ago
> What is your reasoning that led to your conclusion that patents should issue before they are qualified to issue?
The observation that there are a _ton_ of patents issued to "inventions" that aren't even developed yet. That might theoretically be a bar to a patent being issued, but in practice all you need is the idea, the money, and a write-up.
- gravitycop 18y agothere are a _ton_ of patents issued to "inventions" that aren't even developed yet. That is in the current climate of not legally needing to reduce an invention to practice. If, instead, patent-seekers were required to actually produce working copies of their inventions (reduce to practice), we might see them regularly do that before the critical dates. I believe that that was how it was traditionally done, until recent times.