Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:20AM
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What you're talking about is a utility patent, for an embodiment (a product that embodies an invention)instead of allowing patents for inventions.
If you think it's sensible to require manufacture first, before a patent is granted then I don't think you've thought about this enough.
(fictionalisation) "right I tooled up my new design for a wafer fabrication plant, but someone else came up with the same idea and they got the patent last week, now I'm $20M in the hole and did so much needless duplication; now there's no money for us highly skilled people to make further improvements"
If you think it's sensible to require manufacture first, before a patent is granted then I don't think you've thought about this enough.
(fictionalisation) "right I tooled up my new design for a wafer fabrication plant, but someone else came up with the same idea and they got the patent last week, now I'm $20M in the hole and did so much needless duplication; now there's no money for us highly skilled people to make further improvements"
Yay! /s