Thanks Bob! I'm sorry if the post appeared to be too far off topic. I
thought the radio program would be of interest to engineers on the list
since they are often asked by their employers to patent stuff. The program
has an interview with a software engineer who holds patents that he
believes are gobley goop, but the company attorneys wrote them up.

I posted this to two lists. One is in an industry where a number of users
are being sued for patents on very widely used technology. Some of those
patents have been thrown out on re-examination. The other list (piclist)
is a list of engineers, so I thought it would be of interest.

Again, thanks for the comment. I'll try to stay more pic related.

Harold


> I'm posting as an admin.
>
> This thread started poorly. One could almost say the original post -was-
> trolling. And it's going even further downhill.
>
> I could complain and whine about plenty of things that I find important
> but I don't choose to do it on the Piclist.
>
> Use the Piclist for what it is meant for - PICs and engineering.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 2, 2013, at 12:56 PM, YES NOPE9 wrote:
>> The USPTO is *not* in the business of denying patents.  Like other
>> government bureaucracies ...... they have made up their own rules as
>> they
>> go.  The USPTO would *not* like your suggestion HH .
>> Gus
>>
>> > On Jun 2, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>> >
>> > Once again, This American Life has done an excellent program on
>> patents.
>> > The latest one, at
>> > http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/when-patent=
s-attackpart-two
>> > describes how Carbonite got a patent invalidated by an apostrophe in
>> one
>> > of the application documents.
>> >
>> > I STILL think the patent office should publish patents for public
>> review,
>> > then review the public comments before granting a patent. It's a lot
>> > easier for hundreds or thousands of people to find prior art or
>> comment on
>> > obviousness than for a lone patent examiner to do the same.
>> >
>> > Harold
>> >
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