Re:How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system
by problemdomain on Sunday September 30, 2012 @07:11PM
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> propaganda about frivolous lawsuits?
Oh please. This isn't about ambulance chasers, I'm not some right-wing nut who thinks corporations need to be protected from the unwashed masses. This is about things like patent and copyright trolls.
> He's not talking about particular cases, he's talking about aggregate statistics.
Justice is not decided based on aggregate statistics.
Do you follow it deeper than the propaganda about frivolous lawsuits?
> 3. Again, whether a patent is bad or not has nothing to do with whether it's infringed in any particular case.
He's not talking about particular cases, he's talking about aggregate statistics. A system with a lot of weak patents, where people might independently come up with the same design because it's obvious, is going to have a lot more infringement than a system with only strong patents, where infringement is likely to come from only purposefully copying a design.