Posted on 06/01/2008 4:39:20 AM PDT by khnyny
Sorry, “usually amended to include.” People like Lemelson managed to keep their patents secret for years, all the time adding technologies that companies developed and marketed in the meantime. When he thought the market was ripe he’d finally allow his patents to get granted and then he’d sue.
Luckily patent law was changed a while ago so that the clock started ticking upon application. Lemelson’s ability to extend his patents for decades trough numerous continuations can’t happen anymore, thus the time frame for submarine patents is shorter.
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The article is dead on, leftists and anti-capitalists the world over are working hard to weaken US intellectual property laws, to help build their “fair” utopian pipe dream society. Most of them never built a single original thing either, which explains their thinking.
The article is dead off, sounding like somebody got some money under the table from patent trolls.
to help build their “fair” utopian pipe dream society.
All I ask is that patents and copyrights conform to the clause in the Constitution that authorized them. If the Copyright Clause is too "fair" utopian pipe dream for you, then you have a problem with the Constitution.
You think it's about leftists and capitalism, but those have ZERO to do with the issue, which is the Constitution. The leftists can whine for what they want, capitalists can whine for what they want, but the desires of both are trumped by the Constitution (at least they would if our government adhered to the Constitution).
Most of them never built a single original thing either
A huge number of people bringing patent suits never built a single original thing either. The patents are owned solely for the purpose of filing lawsuits with no desire to ever actually build anything out of them. It is such people who are fighting against patent reform. They are leeches on our economy, draining those who actually do invent things, market them and provide jobs. Do you really want to be siding with them?
A long time ago you actually had to give the government a working model of your invention for it to be patented. Too bad that isn't required anymore. We should at least bring back working provisions, which would stop the patent trolls cold.
No surprise you disagree, since you run a ping list that whines about intellectual property holders enforcing their rights.
Kind of like how you whine when certain copyright holders enforce their rights? I know, you cannot be consistent in your supposed strong beliefs. The ping list is about abuse of rights, so you'll mostly see criticism of such abuse. However, I have supported non-abusive enforcement. I even expressed my desire for larger statutory damages in the pinged threads.
BTW, thanks for reminding me, I should ping this story.
BTW, I noticed you did not even try to refute any of the points I made in the post. You just went on a personal attack, as is your preferred modus operandi.
Because you’re incapable of honest debating. It turns into endless strawmen and moving goalposts with you declaring victory whether you actually ever get a single point right.
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