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I should get a patent on "making money by asserting patents". Then I would only grant myself a license and hence have the only patent left that can make money.

I should get a patent on "making money by asserting patents". Then I would only grant myself a license and hence have the only patent left that can make money. Seriously. The way out is a blanket "No software patents" statement from congress; or along the line of what Twitter is doing where all inventors have to agree if their patent is used offensively (although lawyers at my company tell me that such a restriction actually has no legal standing).

shawnz 13y ago
Do you realize that a patent on "making money by asserting patents" wouldn't be a software patent? Please realize that the patent system is flawed in more ways than that, and simply disallowing all software patents is not going to fix the problem.
- linuxhansl 13y ago
  You're correct. I used the term "Software Patent" in a broader sense to include patents "Business Methods".
- Dylan16807 13y ago
  It would fix most of it.
smutticus 13y ago
<sarcasm> Oh yeah! I'm gonna get a patent on making patents on asserting patents. Then when your patent on asserting patents gets tried in court, I'm gonna claim prior art on your patent and get all the monies. Them I'm gonna get a patent on granting patents and sue the patent office and get royalties everytime they grant a patent. </sarcasm>
thwest 13y ago
IBM has one for this: http://www.google.com/patents/US7630915 http://www.google.com/patents/US7630915
drivingmenuts 13y ago
Too late (https://www.google.com/patents/WO2004095226A2?cl=en&dq=%22patent+assertion%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Z5f1UZ2VCIv09gTJjIHYCg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA https://www.google.com/patents/WO2004095226A2?cl=en&dq=%22pa...). Dude beat you to it by several years.
- christiangenco 13y ago
  Aww man! I had this idea too. Are they doing anything with this patent?
- robryan 13y ago
  They should start using that against patent trolls.
  - em70 13y ago
    What if they acquired a license? We would have come full circle, proving the idiocy of this system and, implicitly, that the intelligence of those who administer it is quite limited at best.
- curiouscats 13y ago
  Does that really matter? It apply for a patent and you can patent stuff that is clearly not patentable and sue people left and right. :-/ It is sad this serious problem has been so poorly addressed for so long. If we are lucky in the next couple of years at least the most egregious attacks on business using a broken patent and legal system will be reduced, though even that may fail to be done :-(
- noonespecial 13y ago
  Too late!? Never! Just change the wording slightly and they'll issue it to you again as well. A few well aimed s///g's is about all it takes these days.
jey 13y ago
IBM has already applied for a patent on patent trolling: http://www.google.com/patents/US20070244837 http://www.google.com/patents/US20070244837

shawnz 13y ago

Do you realize that a patent on "making money by asserting patents" wouldn't be a software patent? Please realize that the patent system is flawed in more ways than that, and simply disallowing all software patents is not going to fix the problem.

linuxhansl 13y ago
You're correct. I used the term "Software Patent" in a broader sense to include patents "Business Methods".
Dylan16807 13y ago
It would fix most of it.

smutticus 13y ago

<sarcasm> Oh yeah! I'm gonna get a patent on making patents on asserting patents. Then when your patent on asserting patents gets tried in court, I'm gonna claim prior art on your patent and get all the monies. Them I'm gonna get a patent on granting patents and sue the patent office and get royalties everytime they grant a patent. </sarcasm>

thwest 13y ago

IBM has one for this: http://www.google.com/patents/US7630915 http://www.google.com/patents/US7630915

drivingmenuts 13y ago

Too late (https://www.google.com/patents/WO2004095226A2?cl=en&dq=%22patent+assertion%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Z5f1UZ2VCIv09gTJjIHYCg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA https://www.google.com/patents/WO2004095226A2?cl=en&dq=%22pa...). Dude beat you to it by several years.

christiangenco 13y ago
Aww man! I had this idea too. Are they doing anything with this patent?
robryan 13y ago
They should start using that against patent trolls.
- em70 13y ago
  What if they acquired a license? We would have come full circle, proving the idiocy of this system and, implicitly, that the intelligence of those who administer it is quite limited at best.
curiouscats 13y ago
Does that really matter? It apply for a patent and you can patent stuff that is clearly not patentable and sue people left and right. :-/ It is sad this serious problem has been so poorly addressed for so long. If we are lucky in the next couple of years at least the most egregious attacks on business using a broken patent and legal system will be reduced, though even that may fail to be done :-(
noonespecial 13y ago
Too late!? Never! Just change the wording slightly and they'll issue it to you again as well. A few well aimed s///g's is about all it takes these days.

jey 13y ago

IBM has already applied for a patent on patent trolling: http://www.google.com/patents/US20070244837 http://www.google.com/patents/US20070244837