Re: IBM bathroom patent symbolic of US patent ills

[James Arthur <dagmargoodboat@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 27, 4:17 pm, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-
Web-Site.com> wrote:

> In the past I've done a lot of expert witness consulting.  This year,
> though, I've lost a lot of business by telling potential clients that
> their patent wasn't worth the powder to blow it to hell.
>
> Unfortunately I sure they found themselves an alternate "expert" who
> would swear to anything for a buck :-(

That's my experience too.  I call it "Newton's Third Law of Experts:
For every expert there's an equal and opposite expert."

Cheers,
James Arthur