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Originally posted by Dawgy
wow. i should just send out threatening letters to everyone in america and see how many people send me money.
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Better yet, get a patent for some wierd made up invention, and then send your information packets to business all over the US, to tell them what you INTERPRET your patent to mean (rather than what it ACTUALLY means) , and then accompany it with a licensing schedule.
Example.
A patent of having a web page that used color to highlight key words within a page in order to draw attention or help give direction to said item.
Translation:
Notice how links on your web page are a different color than the rest of the text, you infringe on my patent.... if the link color was the same as the text, then you wouldn't be able to tell where the link was at. IN addition, having text highlighted in a different color draws attention to the points.
Licensing schedule (yearly fee):
Based on PageViews:
1 - 100,000 = $1,500
100,001 - 500,000 = $3,000
etc.
You have until Nov. 30th to take advantage of these introductory rates.
I am not advocating that people patent everything they think of... patents are not bad, only bad patents are bad.
Bad Patents are ones that prior art, or the use of the idea or the idea, existed before the patent.
Patents that are novel and unique deserve some IP protection.
Fight the Patent!