[AndyTheBear]

Patent laws really do need to be updated as they apply to high tech. Big ideas are a dime a dozen. The thing we need to reward is good implementation.

The filing of software algorithm patents has been getting ridiculous as of late. I'm just some lawyer to try to patent: x++;

[AndyTheBear]

I'm just some lawyer to try to patent: x++;

Left out the word "waiting".

[LegendHasIt]

I'm getting sick of the whole patent system and Patent Lawyers especially.

I know of one company that beleives that they have a patent on the geometric shape, the CYLINDER. I can't even mention the company's name here, because they have a team of lawyers that search the internet and will threaten to sue you for even mentioning the company's name or the name of the company's founder in a derogotory way.

But here is a hint: It starts with an M and they manufacture portable lighting devices.

[supercat]

Big ideas are a dime a dozen.

Bingo. If I set myself to doing nothing but documenting all the assorted ideas I could come up with, I would almost certainly come up with several ideas which some other person would independently produce and develop for a great deal of money. If I could demand payment for such ideas because I happened to think of first, I'd be rich.

But why should I profit just because I happened to think of something before someone else did, if I didn't do anything wiht my idea. It's not as though my thinking of it added any value to the world.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Big ideas are a dime a dozen. The thing we need to reward is good implementation.

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Then perhaps the Constitution should be amended to reward implementers who use other people's inventions, instead of securing to inventors the right to their inventions.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Patent laws really do need to be updated as they apply to high tech. Big ideas are a dime a dozen. The thing we need to reward is good implementation.

Didn't the Supreme Court already rule that software is a matter of Copyright laws and not Patent laws.