The more I practice patent prosecution, the more convinced I am that my idea of how formal it is is WILDLY inflated, and that a lot more seat-of-the-pants flying is going on on both the part of the PTO and the average practitioner.
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what we typed up seemed like a bit of a joke to me and I was left wondering "if they can't read the code how can you explain what it does?" the patent attorneys were impressed and told us it was a more thorough, borderline too technical application write-up.
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I don't have to be able to read the code to understand what it does. :)
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if you don't read the code you're really just taking my word for it
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I have to take your word for it: you're the inventor.
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the whole thesis of the Stallman free software idea is that you literally can't trust people only code. open source software is a really important thing. this is SOOOO much better than trusting the inventor. you can just verify it yourself by reading the code, if its FOSS.
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Dude, I am not trying to debate you on the ethics of FOSS or the ideal paradigm for software development. I'm just telling you how this patent dealio works. You tell me what you invented and I write it down. That's it. That's the process.
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I know I know. Like I said, some residual dirty feelings left over from that. What a weird process.
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this weird dirty process is the glue that holds most of the entire global economy togetherpic.twitter.com/1R8JYe7xxK
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