everydayman

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by everydayman 13y ago
Ok good to hear - the patent(s) facilitated investment (e.g. acquisition of the startup) as intended. There are workarounds to just about every way of doing something. The question is how feasible and practical the workaround is.
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by everydayman 13y ago
8 hours is an oversimplification that doesn't count things like the automated preliminary searches performed elsewhere. Boiling down the invention to its basic elements, determining the delta, then finding prior art is a science.
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by everydayman 13y ago
> he also has a 95% success rate, with rarely more than two back-and-forth iterations Just to be clear, this is actually 2 distinct data points: 1) 95% success rate 2) rarely > 2 rounds First on your #2: any software patent[1] that wa
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by everydayman 13y ago
> Examiner rarely looks at prior art that was not listed in the patent wrong - they perform diligent prior art search - and believe it or not ARE experts at that.
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by everydayman 13y ago
now we see your next assumption is that investment into R&D happens without incentives. It doesn't.
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by everydayman 13y ago
You are assuming that ecommerce as it exists today would have happened without RSA (or DH). Maybe someone else would have created it, maybe not. Maybe someone else would have created something else to facilitate ecommerce, maybe not. May
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by everydayman 13y ago
> you simply have to have enough money to pay a patent lawyer to submit the application and it's suddenly a patent the idea that patents are handed out like candy is utter rubbish. Try it sometime. > Edison would roll over in hi