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1 posted on 05/22/2015 4:28:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

This further creates an arbitrary system where gov’t can pick who gets a patent and who does not based on party loyalty.


2 posted on 05/22/2015 5:04:37 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (President Walker - Attorney General Cruz (enforcing immigration laws for real))
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To: Kaslin

Don’t know a great deal about this, but the patent trolls exist and are a big problem, especially BTW for small businesses.

In at least three instances of which I’m aware, trolls have patented processes that have been used for decades in my rather obscure field, then send threatening letters to small businessmen to get them to cough up $500 to $1000 for using them.

Most small businessmen pay them. Bigger companies tell them to pound sand.

Nobody has an incentive to spend tens or hundreds of thousands to get their patents overturned, which is what should happen.

Don’t know the answer, but it is a problem


3 posted on 05/22/2015 5:20:45 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Kaslin

10-289?


4 posted on 05/22/2015 5:50:08 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Kaslin

Every day in every way Obama is just awful.


5 posted on 05/22/2015 10:11:36 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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