On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 09:31 -0300, Isaac Marino Bavaresco wrote:

> If it becomes hard to obtain, patents would be inaccessible to small
> companies and individuals, helping big corporations for whom money is
> not an issue.
> 
> And being easy to defeat would diminish the research efforts.

Personally I think the number one issue is that many patents are granted
when they shouldn't. 

If more work was done by the patent office to reject patents that fail
either the obviousness test or the prior art test far fewer cases of
trolling would occur, and in the long run there would be less work for
the patent office.

So many of the patents that have gone to litigation are so clearly
something that shouldn't have been patented in the first case. Companies
trying to defend themselves can't wait for the patent office to figure
things out, so they settle, just to get the monkey off their backs.
That's VERY wrong.

TTYL

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