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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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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If I report you to CBP as an IP infringer every single shipment you make will get inspected. So obviously the solution is to report everybody, everywhere, as an IP infringer.
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This has been another exciting episode of, "If We Actually Enforced The Rules The Entire System Would Grind To A Halt Immediately." Tune in next time, when we'll discuss jury trials.
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