[proxy_user]

Well, so much for the patent on selling goods for money...

[cuban leaf]

I worked for a large cell phone company and supported their legal department. There are people out there that will reverse engineer a cell phone and try to identify parts of its functionality that are not patented. They will then patent it and then sue the company for violating their patent.

We had a whole subsection of our legal department devoted to dealing with this crap.

The wright bro’s tried to patent flying.

[quimby]

That surge can be traced partly to the very law that was supposed to stamp out some of the trouble. The America Invents Act, signed in 2011, made it illegal to file a single lawsuit claiming a whole bunch of defendants had infringed a patent in the same way. Now, a patent holder must file individual lawsuits against each company, which has caused the number of lawsuits to soar, patent experts say.

In other words, obama is acting to couteract the effects of a law he singed 2 years ago. obama must have read about it in the papers.

[9YearLurker]

I think they gave Monsanto that patent.

[backwoods-engineer]

Well, that's rich. After Obama and his minions changed the US from "first to invent" to "first to file" patents, companies, legitimate and otherwise flood the patent office with paperwork filled with generalities, hoping they can get anything to stick. Then, when they get hold of a patent with such broad claims that whole industries and indeed, common ways of doing things fall under it, the troll and sue.

Yes, patent trolls existed before the Won. But he and his minions have made it worse.

[Dixie Yooper]

I might have to postpone filing my patent for using Photosynthesis to turn CO2 into O2.

[foxpro2]

In 1879, a Rochester lawyer named George Selden applied for a U.S. patent for a road vehicle powered by a gasoline engine.

[Sequoyah101]

And who could not see this coming when, at the first of this year, obastard changed the patent law from first to invent to first to file.

The trolling will only get worse as long as this insanity goes on. So what if it is “like the rest of the world”? Does that make it right? NO.

We should be afraid to write technical papers and they should dry up. Ditto with articles in trade journals. They should dry up since anyone can file a patent now and claim inventorship and ownership. First to file baby. To hell with prior art and invention conception.

Obastard creates problems to be a hero in “fighting” them.