Foros Club Delphi - Conque quieren patentar esa idiotes? Reporta en AskPatents!

Ultimamente las patentes estan de moda -para odiarlas-.

Muchos se preguntan porque X patente se otorgo en USA:

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Now, the patent office works hard, but in order to determine if something is not an invention, they have to find prior art.

And, as you might guess, in the 22.5 hours [DOC] that examiners might have to review each patent application, searching every document published in the entire world in every language is not practical. There’s no possible way examiners can conduct a truly exhaustive search of prior art.

Y como encontrar que eso ya tiene implementaciones previas? Los pobres empleados de la oficina de patentes no pueden con la avalancha de solicitudes, y la verdad, tampoco son programadores.

Asi que el Jefe de la oficina de patentes de USA encontro un "agujero" en la ley que permite al ciudadano comun hacer esa busqueda:

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Any person at any time may cite to the Office in writing prior art consisting of patents or printed publications which that person believes to have a bearing on the patentability of any claim of a particular patent…

El anuncio completo:

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Our hope is that Ask Patents will reduce the number of patents mistakenly granted for obvious, unoriginal non-inventions, especially around software, a field that is near and dear to us.

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/0...t-bad-patents/

Asi que, es tu oportunidad de fregarle el negocio de US 500 millones de dolares a una firma de abogados!!!