Re: IBM bathroom patent symbolic of US patent ills

[pltrgyst <pltrgyst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:03:31 -0400, "John J. Bengii" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>The US Patent Office and system is a crock of shit.

Ah, well, there we have it.

The US Patent Office and system are exactly what Congress desires them to be.

>There is only one prerequisite for a patent to be approved in the USA...did
>they apply?

Hmm, maybe you ddn't read the OP's "Over the last 40 years, the USPTO
granted 62-72 percent of all patent applications, but that number has been
dropping. In the first quarter of this year, only 43 percent of
applications have been granted."

>This has been proven in many patent infringement suits in the
>USA to date.

Proven? Do you have any statistics concerning how many of the up 150,000 to
200,000 patents issued each year are challenged? Did you ever consider that
maybe the relatively few patents that are ever challenged are the ones most
deserving of challenge?

>If you contest an Intellectual Patent, once they look at it,
>they overturn it.

And just what is an "Intellectual Patent"?

>They don't know Jack about the product.

There's certainly someone here who doesn't know Jack ... and, coincidentally, he
might even be called Jack, since his stated name is John!

-- Larry (anti-patent, but in favor of a little bit of logic here and there...)