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Reform does not equal abolish[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#3)
by jjh1102us on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 10:19:21 AM PDT

I'm not sure that suggesting the patent system needs serious reform is the same as saying we should do away with patents. Clearly, the idea of delivering e-mail to a wireless device is something that should be intuitive to anyone - I've got e-mail, I've got a wireless device, why wouldn't I want to get e-mail on it? Patents should be limited to ideas that truly innovate, not just implement obvious solutions.

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by Anonymous User on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 01:00:40 PM PDT

The real problem with the patent system is lawyers who exploit it by aquiring patent rights (for pennies) they have no intentions of developing for commercial use. It was only a few years ago another law firm (or perhaps it was this one) was suing small businesses with e-commerce for infrigment on their patent that generally discribed "selling products on the internet" even though they never typed a letter of code that could be used for e-commerce. NTP and firms like them wait in the shadows for others to build a succesful business they can attach themselves to, very much like a leach, drawing blood/cash but contibuting nothing to the product. Were this the actual developer who intended to build a business I could have sympathy but this is not the guy who invented delayed windshield wipers, far from it. Think of a patent as a party. This is a pack of lawyers who did not throw this party, did not bring anything to this this party but will leave with bag holding all the best food and drink. In short; if you hold a patent you should be required to actively develop it or lose the rights to it.

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