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The Difficulties of Patent Busting

Posted by michael on from the uphill-both-ways-in-the-snow dept.

wheresjim writes "An article on CNN.com entitled 'Tough road for patent-busters' describes the hard road one has to follow to get a questionable patent revoked. According to the article, of the approx 7,000,000 existing patents, only 614 have been revoked, and only 3927 have had their claims narrowed."

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  1. Microsoft patent strategy revealed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    See this leaked HP memo regarding Microsoft's strategy to kill Open Source with patents. We need to fix the patent system now.

  2. Re:Someone should... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    [Someone should] patent the process of getting a patent revoked.

    Whenever a patent story comes up on slashdot, at least one person (usually more) makes an unimaginative variation of the "... patent the process of patenting [whatever is mentioned in the story]" They are inevitably moderated as 'funny'. They are not 'funny'.

  3. Re:Someone should... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Maybe we should patent the posting of lame posts on /. that complain about a joke that the person has heard too often.

  4. Re:Patent Reform by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    patents expire, just wait a few years and all the "damage" will have gone away.