Comments on: Patent Law Gone Wild: String-Phone Granted a Patent http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2877 Independent Tech News and Product Reviews from former VP and head of CNET.com and Longtime Computer Shopper Columnist, Alice Hill author of the popular "Hard Edge" column. Originally named AliceandBill.com. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:16:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: ZS http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2877#comment-447281 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:00:20 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2877#comment-447281 I know this is way after the fact but Jack is holding the patent office to a standard that we are not legally bound to uphold. "IT DOESN’T CONTRIBUTE ANYTHING TO SOCIETY." is not one of the statutes patent examiner's use to determine patentability. Even if I think something is a stupid invention or completely obvious, I can't reject a patent because I think so. I have to use the laws that are in place and find prior art which establishes at the time of invention that the application was something that was known. So yes, stupid patents are out there, but the people are the ones abusing it. Anytime we try to fix up loopholes that people exploit, they fight those changes in court because they enjoy being able to exploit them. So stop blaming us, blame society. :) I know this is way after the fact but Jack is holding the patent office to a standard that we are not legally bound to uphold. “IT DOESN’T CONTRIBUTE ANYTHING TO SOCIETY.” is not one of the statutes patent examiner’s use to determine patentability. Even if I think something is a stupid invention or completely obvious, I can’t reject a patent because I think so. I have to use the laws that are in place and find prior art which establishes at the time of invention that the application was something that was known. So yes, stupid patents are out there, but the people are the ones abusing it. Anytime we try to fix up loopholes that people exploit, they fight those changes in court because they enjoy being able to exploit them. So stop blaming us, blame society. :)

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]]> by: Jeff http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2877#comment-20979 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:56:50 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2877#comment-20979 I gotta say that patent looks reasonable, in that if you look at the descriptive text, they acknowlege(sp?) that the can and string phone pre-exists and that this product os designed to be small, lightweight, foodsafe, and reliably assembled. The string/can phones of youth all fail at no lees than one of those, usuallt several. I gotta say that patent looks reasonable, in that if you look at the descriptive text, they acknowlege(sp?) that the can and string phone pre-exists and that this product os designed to be small, lightweight, foodsafe, and reliably assembled. The string/can phones of youth all fail at no lees than one of those, usuallt several.

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