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From: Paul Rubin on 28 Jan 2010 04:40
Christian Baer <christian.baer(a)uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> I'm not an expert for patents in the US, but IIRC there war one
> condition that had to be met: The person (or firm) applying for the
> patent actually had to be the inventor of the "thing", not just the
> first to hand in the papers.
>
> Or am I missing the point here?

The issue is that even a minor variation on something well known counts
as an "invention" and is patentable. Also, the patent examination
process is not very rigorous and so rediscoveries of known ideas are
patented all the time.
From: Christian Baer on 28 Jan 2010 10:49
Paul Rubin schrieb:

> The issue is that even a minor variation on something well known counts
> as an "invention" and is patentable. Also, the patent examination
> process is not very rigorous and so rediscoveries of known ideas are
> patented all the time.

That is pathetic! Even the normally very slow Americans have to realize
that that is bad for (their own) economy. Unfortunately, they are not
alone in that (being slow).

Regards,
Chris
From: Mok-Kong Shen on 28 Jan 2010 15:21
Simon Johnson wrote:

> The patent system has completely collapsed in the US.

I surmise that this is not a phenomenon unique to US.
Anyway, the patents are almost invariably written in
a style that "normal" people couldn't understand. See
for instance, the following one on a compression methiod
which I recently came across by chance:

US Patent 5533051 - Method for data compression.
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5533051/claims.html

M. K. Shen

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