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Old patent numbers can get you in deep dodo.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj Best Regards Tom. |
OT-Patents
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 06:02:49 -0700, "azotic"
wrote: Old patent numbers can get you in deep dodo. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj Best Regards Tom. So, who gets the money in the lawsuits? If it's just the lawyers who found the "offending" products, then they are doing a really great public service - right? NOT. That's just ambulance chasing without even having to chase ambulances, and without anyone getting hurt (until after the suit). (Insert your favorite diatribe against lawyers here - I prefer Shakespeare's comment.) I can agree that a manufacturer has no right to mark a product with a false patent number, but if they actually were awarded a patent for an invention, why not let them crow about it; even after the protection has expired, the patent they were awarded continues to exist. I know that, because I've looked up patents from the 19th century to see how the old scientific devices in my collection were "superior" to their competition. Usually some small detail that seems rather trivial. Joe |
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On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 06:02:49 -0700, "azotic"
wrote: Old patent numbers can get you in deep dodo. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj So, the ****ing lawyers have found yet another way to subtract flavor from, suck money out of, and otherwise ruin everyday living? What's new? Is it here yet? Is it here yet? Is it here yet? -- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. -- Storm Jameson |
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On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 06:02:49 -0700, "azotic"
wrote: Old patent numbers can get you in deep dodo. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj Best Regards Tom. I'd love to meet that bow tie offended attorney at a high class party, probably start out with "Boy are you a ****ing dick!" Anybody that half ass knows anything about patents would know that anything somewhere below 5.5 million is history. Well, thanks Tom, I learned something. I was gonna leave it on my devices when the time comes just to show it is the original, guess that is a bad idea. Sounds like a law to protect extremely stupid people that go around looking for other people's products to copy cause they can't think of their own and want compensation cause they could have copied one that had an expired patent number if they had only done their homework, so they want the law to enforce the issue so they don't have to do any homework. I'd love to read the precedent. If we could only get the congress critters (good name Gunner) to get bad laws off the books. I mean really... Patent attorney resorts to suing old patented products cause all his other peers sued all the manufactures out of business or over seas and now no one is around to hire him and his daddy paid all that money for school and his life style is fading. Sickening SW PS , that's not a bad idea. Someone should get an appointment for a new widget that has obviously been done before and watch him take the money anyhow and then proceed to stick a pencil down their thoat and puke all over him and his desk. |
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Larry Jaques wrote:
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 06:02:49 -0700, "azotic" wrote: Old patent numbers can get you in deep dodo. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj So, the ****ing lawyers have found yet another way to subtract flavor from, suck money out of, and otherwise ruin everyday living? What's new? Is it here yet? Is it here yet? Is it here yet? Gee, a patent number. Look it up, see that is old (expired), laugh, make your copy. Or, make a fugging bloodsucking lawyer rich at societies expense. I've met good lawyers but I fear this profession doesn't follow the 80/20, or 90/10 rule of good guys to arse portals. Wes |
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