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Patent Databases Complicate Life For Inventors
karvind writes "New Scientists is running a story about how the move to electronic record-keeping is making it harder to check if a device has already been invented. From the article: '.. even though most online patent archives are incomplete, parts of the paper-based collections that preceded them are being destroyed.' We ran a story earlier on how to fix U.S. patents. Maybe I can patent the wheel again."
Your first post violated 3 of my patents, prepare to get reamed.
Does this mean that there will be a lot more funny patent rights law suits I can read about??? I generally found them quite interesting and really funny. Also, does that mean I can try to patent the "eletronic patending system" by calling it the "patend facilitation device" ??? lol
"May be I can patent the wheel again."
May be you can al so pa tent inno vative spell ing meth od, who knows?
And then they'll patent it...
Hard disks. Lots of hard disks.
Want to solve the patent problem right away? Everyone converge on the Patent and Trademark office. Bring magnets.
Big magnets.
Surely no-one here on Slashes' Dot would make such a mistake.
I think is is in violation of a patent I filed regarding "An electronic method to store and search documents detailing grants made by a government that confer upon the creators of inventions the sole right to make, use, and sell those inventions for a set period of time"
Patent, what patent? The computer tells us that you don't have a patent. I even think your company does not exist anywhere in the patent office, could you please tell me your companyname?
"Microsoft"
Clicke-ty-click. Nope, sorry, not one patent.
Remember, some geek has to maintain that database, all we need is to get a BOFH in there.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.