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There is zero follow up - no prototyping, no CAD files, no R&D, no clinical trials, no betas, no execution - it goes from nebulous "idea" straight to the legal
by WalterGR 14y ago
There is zero follow up - no prototyping, no CAD files, no R&D, no clinical trials, no betas, no execution - it goes from nebulous "idea" straight to the legal department.
Is that uncommon?
- rpm4321 14y agoFor an inventor or a patent troll? I'm disputing them being characterized as anything but the latter.
- WalterGR 14y agoFor the average patent.
- rpm4321 14y agoI suppose that depends on how pervasive patent trolling has become. But yes, I would say that the development of the vast majority of inventions worth protecting would necessitate more than some scribbling on a bar napkin. If the process begins with some vague "inspiration" about where an invention may lie, and then promptly ends with a call to your lawyer - no feasibility testing, no fleshing out of the concept, no iteration of thought, I would say that the patent system is fundamentally broken.