[cc-community] Help w/ Defensive Patents Agreement

Lloyd cc at phizz.demon.co.uk
Sun Apr 6 05:30:07 EDT 2008


jonathon wrote:
> Mike wrote:
> 
> 
>> The company always says to the employee, "Don't worry, this patent is for *defensive* purposes only.
> 
> The problem is how "defensive purposes" is defined.
> 

The problem is that for years the US Patent Office has accepted any old 
crap. Therefore, if you don't want to be tied up in challenging bogus 
and patents or patents for which you had the prior idea, you have to get 
your crap in first.

Some arses should be throughly kicked.


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