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Re:Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On A... by monochromatic on Sunday December 09, 2012 @09:23PM (#4897130)
> I think an argument that evidence of independent invention should create a presumption that an invention is obvious would be far better received as well as being more consistent with the statutory framework.

This seems plausible on its face, but in fact there have been lots of cases where really inventive things were conceived at nearly the same time by different inventors.

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Re:Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On A... by nitrogen on Monday December 10, 2012 @08:08AM (#4898803)
If multiple inventors independently create something, none of them should be able to take that creation from the others just by being first to the patent office. I regard the old story about Bell winning patent rights to the telephone by a narrow margin as a failure of the system.
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Re:Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On A... by rayiner on Sunday December 09, 2012 @09:31PM (#4897158)
The question is: which situation is more common. That should be the default presumption.
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Re:Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On A... by monochromatic on Sunday December 09, 2012 @10:33PM (#4897346)
I disagree. I think there shouldn't be a default presumption linking one to the other.
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