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Mistakes Found in 98% of US Patents

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the attention-to-detail dept.

Artem Tashkinov writes to tell us The Register is reporting that almost every US patent contains at least one mistake. The findings from a recent look by Itellevate, a firm that offers support services to intellectual property lawyers, claim that most of these errors are trivial but approximately 2 percent of the patents examined had errors that weakened the core claims of the patent itself.

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  1. Something else too... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    98% of News stories contain mistakes too it seems.

    1. Re:Something else too... by krhaze · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      98% of human beings are mistakes too.

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  2. 98% of Slashdot postings have mistakes too. by toybuilder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Most of the mistakes are going to be spelling errors, an omitted punctuation, et cetra. In most cases, those errors are mere speed bumps to reading, but don't change the substance of the patent...

  3. No one is "perfect" by ookabooka · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did you also know that 98% of Slashdot summaries have errors??

    Seriously though, I doubt there are many legal documents that are 100% "perfect".

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