http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/ Engadget Comments for Patent system changes in the works? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/May 24th 2006 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/May 24th 2006 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/May 24th 2006 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/
Here is a 2004 article on the budget of the patent office. I'm sure it's only gotten worse.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4788834/

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:) George

(PS: please dont tell me to go back to Slashdot since I am not welcome here :) )]]>May 24th 2006 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/
That said, major changes risk upsetting a balance which has taken hundreds of years to hammer out. Any changes should be vetted by highly capable people.

Unfortunately, most of the people who could really help things have left the PTO to work in private practice, so that they can be paid better.]]>May 24th 2006 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/May 24th 2006 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/May 24th 2006 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/May 24th 2006 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/cool shit!]]>May 25th 2006 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/
SHOULD NOT ALLOW TO PATENT:
1. General ideas.
2. Simple ideas (e.g obvious).
3. Descriptions of the world we live INCLUDING our human nature (e.g DNA descriptions).


SHOULD ALLOW TO PATENT:
1. a CLEVER WAY to implement a general idea (e.g the format, or the procedure) but WITHOUT including general ideas.
2. Another WAY to implement the same general idea if it is essentially different and offers a great advantage over the previous one.


With a system like this, each idea would contribute to the technological evolution encouraging other implementations but only if they are essentially better.


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Oh, I'm sorry, that joke comes up about ten times in every patent thread on every forum or board in the world for the last ten years. Not new, I guess.

My options appear to be reduced. I'd instead like to patent the idea of a ubiquitous self-replicating worm and web-services filter that changes all such jokes into the classic Underpants Gnome meme, with patenting replacing one of the steps. This is also not new, and is not much better, except that underpants are inherently funny, and it is a well known fact that all discussions involving patents are improved by threadjacking to underpants.]]>May 25th 2006 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/patent-system-changes-in-the-works/
..you are not allowed to repeat the above jokes, I just patented them!

Also, I anylyzed your style (that you failed to claim as your own) and I'm in the process of patent pending it as a humor element for the virtual personality of an autonomous steam-bot that will say a joke to the enemy before termination, just for confusion! This will be good for defense purposes too! So please change style next time!

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