Look I know alot of people are going to post about how the entire patent system needs to be defenstrated (thrown out the window), but lets not forget the tremendous innovation our patent system has protected. The solution to these submarine patent lawsuits seems to be have a clause specifically preventing this situation: a company must be in the process of selling the product in question in order to bring a lawsuit like this to trial. We need legislation that prevents people from obtaining patents and sitting on them. You should lose your right to the patent for failure to act within a certain time period. A twenty year monopoly on an idea is far too long in todays modern world. I open the discussion up to patent reform and your ideas, please post
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Look I know alot of people are going to post about how the entire patent system needs to be defenstrated (thrown out the window), but lets not forget the tremendous innovation our patent system has protected. The solution to these submarine patent lawsuits seems to be have a clause specifically preventing this situation: a company must be in the process of selling the product in question in order to bring a lawsuit like this to trial. We need legislation that prevents people from obtaining patents and sitting on them. You should lose your right to the patent for failure to act within a certain time period. A twenty year monopoly on an idea is far too long in todays modern world. I open the discussion up to patent reform and your ideas, please post