[geeks] LaBrea

[Dave McGuire]

On July 17, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > Well, patents were made for the little people.  And as such, the
> > > process is supposed to be fairly easy. 
> > 
> > Well, in theory it's easy. In practice it's hard, and a patent attorney
> > is needed for ALL patents. The US Patent office takes an adversarial
> > position, and this makes it harder than it should be to patent things. I
> > know this because I've gone thru the process a few times :)
> 
> As of a few years ago, there were still people doing it by
> themselves.  Maybe things have changed.  Somewhat of an adversarial
> view is probably good if it weeds out bogus claims.  What would suck
> though would be if James was denied, then $bigco got it.  That is the
> main purpose I see for filing patents is to keep them out of the hands
> of $bigcos.

  The stuff I built at SkyCache had two patents issued.  It took months
and three lawyers.  And of course, I'm not mentioned ANYWHERE in it,
but half the fucking VPs are.

  *grumble*

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire                  "Needing a calculator indicates that
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