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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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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but proprietary software, closed-source code, etc. etc. business is what it is. trusting the inventor is second rate though, even if it's the best you can do in this situation.
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I literally have to do that. It's how legal ethics work.
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