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If there was any doubt that the patent system was literally a game, this headline is it: "IBM _Wins Most US Patents..." So did they earn them? File for them?
by ryanobjc 13y ago
If there was any doubt that the patent system was literally a game, this headline is it: "IBM _Wins Most US Patents..."
So did they earn them? File for them? Play some kind of hunger-games-alike game to win them?
it's a funny turn of language. It really does imply that IBM somehow didn't research them like they're supposed to...
- mildtrepidation 13y agoI agree that it reflects some of the absurdity of the patent system, but only incidentally... language is flexible, and how people use it to describe something doesn't inform the nature of that thing.
- hkmurakami 13y agohaving gone through portent writing and application processes myself, it really is like a game to see how much you can get away with.
- viewer5 13y agoI interviewed for a job at IBM, and found out the answer to this question: IBM requires its employees to come up with patents for IBM, and gives the employee a bonus for doing so. It's completely stupid.