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Originally Posted by brecklundin
is Discovery Communications run by Al Gore? 
It is flat amazing the ambiguous patents allowed today. Once was a time you had to provide a proof of concept model, detailed doco and a report describing the product or process in question.
Sometime soon the shotgun approach to patent applications has to be put to a stop.
It is so sad it is funny on some dark level. |
You still do have to provide a lot of documentation (though not a model) - but a lot of total garbage has, unfortunately, been allowed in the early days of the computer revolution when the USPTO did not really understand what computers were about.
The nice thing about patent lawsuits is that the court also scrutinizes the patent for validity. So if you've got a garbage patent that somehow got past the examiner, and you sue someone else based on it, the court may very well conclude that your patent is garbage and invalidate it. I haven't read the complaint or the patent, but if the patent in question really is obvious, or invalid in some other way, it may well get thrown out.