Court Blocks Controversial New Patent Rules

An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek is reporting that a court in Virginia has issued an injunction against controversial new patent rules that were supposed to go into effect tomorrow. The court granted a motion filed by GlaxoSmithKline, which is suing the US patent office over the issue. Among other things, the new rules would limit the extent to which existing patent applications can be modified. The patent office says the new rules would speed up the patent process, but critics say they hurt inventors."

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Bad for inventors?

[Anonymous Coward]

All I hear are the cries of patent trolls saying "Won't someone please think of the children^W inventors!"

Re:Playing devil's advocate

[cromar]

That's interesting. You'd think "one click" would have turned up in their search.

Re:Playing devil's advocate

[DamnStupidElf]

Having submitted several patents through my company, I can attest that they need to be rewritten all the time because patent reviewers are idiots. They take a one sentence claim, pick a two 'big' words out it and do a literature search. If those two words appear in any publication remotely related to the field related to your patent, they mark it as prior art.

Hence the patent attempts for "rotational conveyance devices", whatever those are...