Mistakes Found in 98% of US Patents

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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If irony were made of strawberries...

[Tsar]

...we'd all be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.

The findings from a recent look by Itellevate, a firm that offers support services to intellectual property lawyers, claim that most of these errors a trivial but approximately 2 percent of the patents examined had errors that weakened the core claims of the patent itself.

"Most of these errors a trivial," eh? I'll bet they a! And it's Intellevate , not Itellevate.

How can we expect 10,000-word patent applications and their appendant illustrations to be free from even trivial errors, when a 65-word story can't even use correct grammar or get the subject's name right? Honestly, how short does a story have to be to get proofread around here?

Before you go on a rampage

[deblau]

Before everyone starts badmouthing the patent system and saying how patent lawyers suck (too late), I betcha 98% of software applications have mistakes in them.

From the attention-to-detail department, indeed. That's all it takes to fix the problem, right?