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Originally posted by FightThisPatent
that bet was already placed over 10 years ago, and they bet correctly.
The USPTO doesn't get involved in patent infringement cases, so they don't need to bet on the USPTO.
They are placing their bets on people's ignorance of patent law, and at the first showing of a patent document and a legalese letter from an attorney, that the webmaster learns a new trick... how to rollover rover.
They are betting on the fact that general counsel and CFO types in a company will make the BUSINESS decision that it's cheaper to pay than it is to fight.
We already know that both bets presented above are true.
Fight The Patent!
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Yeah that's all true....but what I meant is the computer illiterate morons at the USPTO are the ones that give out these bs patents without any idea what the fuck they are doing. These tech companies rolled on through the PTO in the last decade getting patents for every fucking thing you can imagine, none of which are/were original, many of which have prior art or depend on other patented or copyrigthed materials and not one of those BS companies did anything with the patent but use it as bait for the next wave of "IP" companies (read fancy suits with no fucking clue) to buy them out.
Fuck them where it hurts.