Re:Obama Signs Patent ‘Reform’ Bill
by igorlev on Sunday September 18, 2011 @09:22PM
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Not a prize. More like a fair trade where government offers their powers of enforcement to guarantee your monopoly and you offer a detailed explanation of your invention so that everyone else can use it freely after the patent expires.
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Of course, the release of details requirement is moot when the products being patented can be easily reverse engineered by a third party. Especially so when the patent application itself is extremely vague.