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We shouldn't ignore the effect of hindsight. Lot of ideas that we think today as obvious or straight forward, may not have been all that obvious before it got p
by padmanabhan01 17y ago
We shouldn't ignore the effect of hindsight. Lot of ideas that we think today as obvious or straight forward, may not have been all that obvious before it got popular. In that movie, Ford and Chrysler engineers apparently had trouble duplicating his model.
That said, Its not about how simple or how hard an idea is right? Its about how much value it adds.
EDIT: In your example, as long as it is not willful infringement and as long as he started making them before he patented it, there will not be any penalty. But in case of ford and Chrysler, its willful infringement.
- CamperBob 17y agoThere's still a penalty for non-willful infringement; if nothing else, the inventor can request an injunction that shuts down your whole production line. That's the scary thing about patents... unless you have comprehensive knowledge of every patent in your field of endeavor, they are financial time bombs. If the plaintiff can show that you did know about the patent and infringe it willfully, the damages are tripled.