INNOVA~1?
"In hindsight, optimism was premature."It appears as though the patent system remains and will remain entangled in the mess which it led itself into. This must the consequence of being motivated and run by lobbyists and the commercial interests of companies that can afford influence. We covered all of this before and provides many references to support the fact that the patent system is in a sad state and that internal issues have had it possessed by industry forces, not independent assessors or promoters of invention, let alone the consumer.
Some of the very latest articles demonstrate the issues which must now be coped with (or better yet -- corrected). The following news, for instance, shows us that companies are stung because of poor quality control in the USPTO.
Vonage denied the claims, arguing that Sprint's patents were flawed and shouldn't have been approved.
Dublin-based firm Adwalker has been granted a US patent for its wearable interactive digital media platform.
While Congress continues to fight over patent reform (often missing the bigger issues for those that the lobbyists are most interested in), it's been the Supreme Court that's been doing its best to bring some sanity back to the patent system.
sudo) then it is to throw them away after they had been accepted, filed, and possibly paid/compensated for.
Comments
Ken
2007-09-28 20:57:29
The drug companies love patents too because they can string them out forever, raking in huge profits on the backs of good people, while they subdue any form of competition and further hold back true "innovation". It is just pathetic.
Even the Universities have gotten in on the gravy train. They use taxpayer dollars for research which provides them the means to develop new technologies that they patent. The drug companies buy the patents to corner the market in that technology. Years ago universities had to make what they discovered in research using federal funds available to everyone. Those days are gone and that is one reason that health care costs have been rising steeply in the past 20 years. If you want to reduce health care costs, then reduce the ability to patent every idea known to man.
Like a bunch of bratty kids playing in the sandbox. One complains that the other has used his idea for a sand castle and improved upon it. Waaa waaa, get over it, that's innovation!
Just do away with the entire patent system. You will then see innovation like never before. These abstract forms of property are there just to satisfy selfish and greedy business interests. They do nothing to help mankind. Kill patents and let innovation and competition prevail!
Roy Schestowitz
2007-09-28 21:41:32