Mmmmm, Mmmmm Monopoly! USPTO To Hit New Record In Granting Utility Patents
from the rarest-of-circumstances? dept
Another year... another record by the USPTO in locking up all sorts of ideas with patents. Yes, that's right, it's only early december and it's being reported that the USPTO will set a new record in utility patents, blasting through the old record, set (of course) just last year with 225,000 patents. Remember back in the early days of the patent system, when Thomas Jefferson ran the patent office despite thinking that patents might actually do more harm than good? One of the things he focused on was trying to avoid granting patents willy nilly since "abuse of frivolous patents is likely to cause more inconvenience than is countervail by those really useful." I kinda miss that Patent Office. Oh yeah, when he ran the Patent Office, it granted.. 67 patents over two years.
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Pretty much expected...
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Don't you mean "Late" December? Unless the 26-31 is still considered "Early?"
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No, you had to try and be a smartass, but ended up failing. Great job you did there. *Insert slow clap here*
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If you'd bothered to click on the first link, you would have seen that the source for saying "Early December" was first posted on the 4th.
No, you had to try and be a smartass, but ended up failing. Great job you did there. *Insert slow clap here*
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Mike wrote in present tense: "Yes, that's right, it's only early december and it's being reported", SO it's his fault as author, a sloppy one.
Therefore it's YOU, Rikuo, deserving your post right back at ya*: "No, you had to try and be a smartass, but ended up failing. Great job you did there. *Insert slow clap here*"
Don't you kids EVER get tired of lame ad hom?
[* I may start using "Right_Back_At_Ya" as moniker at times, it's become so frequent that you kids flop even when trying to be a smartass.]
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Besides...Mike is still right. It would be a different story entirely if he said "It is being reported" about something from a few months or years ago, but start of the month is okay to be accurate when saying "It is being reported" in the present tense.
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I'm not OOTB and I'm sorry.
This is why I don't like posting in the comments sometimes. I could be mistaken for the other trolls around here. :(
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I'm sorry if it seemed like I was attacking Mike (although I don't really see how considering I was only asking a simple question), but I assure you I wasn't.
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AND YOUR PROPOSALS FOR SOLUTION ARE?
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On the Instagram article you came down on Mike for being pro corporation and yet on the Hollywood article you were defending the corporate whores that run Hollywood. Why so inconsistent and even hypocritical?
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On the Instagram article you came down on Mike for being pro corporation and yet on the Hollywood article you were defending the corporate whores that run Hollywood. Why so inconsistent and even hypocritical?
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Why do you always critcise Mike for being pro corporation and then on articles like this you come over all pro corporation yourself?
On the Instagram article you came down on Mike for being pro corporation and yet on the Hollywood article you were defending the corporate whores that run Hollywood. Why so inconsistent and even hypocritical?
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I'm not inconsistent: "the corporate whores that run Hollywood" (I AGREE with that!) have fair claim to copyright (in some reduced form), though I agree that they get too much for crap, so emphasis is on "fair".
So I'm not inconsistent, you're a moron who misses the obvious, cause if anyone here is against corporatism, it's me. I advise hanging 'em for crimes committed and to prevent future crimes.
Now that you're clear on the point, retract or prove yourself just straining for ad hom.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120712/18322919680/judge-posner-mission-to-fix-patents- we-have-some-suggestions.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121127/11245721156/some-thought s-fixing-problems-patent-system.shtml
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Have you considered a job as a comedian? You are seriously failing here at Techdirt.
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Monopoly
Increased patents are just the canary in the coal mine for Big Govt take over of the US economy. Watch what happens when our new health care laws kick (us in the ass) in.
Who's going to stop them, you (look in mirror)?
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No, increased patents are the canary in the coal mine for Big Corporations to take over the US, not Big Government.
As an aside, if we had to choose between those two Bigs (and I don't think we do), then I choose Big Government. It's easier to fix the government (who is us) than major corporations (whose behavior we have little to no say in.)
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Then PLEASE get them to fix the:
Fiscal Cliff
$16T+ Total US Debt
Debt Ceiling increase
$100B yearly waste/fraud in Medicare
Increased frivolous Patents issued - see above
Broadband Internet Monopolies (granted by the Govt)
$200B yearly waste/fraud in Defense spending
$1T+ yearly budget deficits as far as the eye can see
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/10/12/deficit-tops-1-trillion-again/1630377/
Federal Reserve $85B monthly purchases of US debt in perpetuity
-monetizing the debt
Tax payer loss in GM ($13B)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/26/government-recalls-gm-stock/
If you could stop even one of these, I would give you the benefit of the doubt. But I saw InstaGram get its ass handed to it by "the people".
Name one Corp action that even comes close the any of these atrocities…you can’t.
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That's not even a challenge. I can give you a long laundry list of atrocities that absolutely rise to and exceed the level of what you list here, but I'll keep it to three big ones: murder (individual and genocidal), torture, etc. Also, many of the things in your list corporations are equally complicit in (or are the root cause of) -- for example, the waste/fraud in medicare, the broadband monopolies, the waste/fraud in military spending, etc.
In fact, more of the bad things that are happening in the government today are only happening because of major corporations who have taken control of the government. We live, literally, in a corporatocracy. We largely do not have a government that represents us. I advocate getting that back.
What I am saying is that the corporations have to go. They are destroying this country, and part of the way they're doing it is by trying to convince people that corporations can save us from the evils of government despite the fact that corporations are the main thing making the government evil. If they succeed in this effort, then this nation is done.
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Ah yes, the big three:
1. Murder
2. Torture
3. Etc.
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You need to seek help for your BIG GOVT ideological beliefs.
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The US Debt is $16.4T right now with 10,000 people retiring monthly for the next 20 yrs which will require an estimated $80T in SS/Medicare payouts. No one is talking about that...unsustainable.
My point: Only the Govt bastards can destroy the next generation with debt, not Corporations. Greece is a prime example.
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John Fenderson: I can give you a long laundry list of atrocities that absolutely rise to and exceed the level of what you list here, but I'll keep it to three big ones: murder (individual and genocidal), torture, etc. Also, many of the things in your list corporations are equally complicit in (or are the root cause of) -- for example, the waste/fraud in medicare, the broadband monopolies, the waste/fraud in military spending, etc.
Really, a longer list than Mao & Stalin, your Communist buddies? How about Big Govt Kim Jong il, savior of the people?
You are a Fraud…admit you’re a Fraud now to save yourself…
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Manager of the American Patent Agency Charles Duell 1899
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Patent System Fix
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patents
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While I do not have "numbers", it was not uncommon prior to the Patent Act of 1790 for individual states to enact state patent laws and grant patents upon application to state legislatures. The 1790 act came about when it was realized that a uniform federal system was preferrable.
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what do you know about patents?
Leave it to you to quote Jefferson out of context. In the early years the US was primarily agricultural. But Jefferson came to understand the importance of technology and the need for the country to develop its own technologies. Otherwise, the US would be dependent on foreign nations to provide what the US could not itself. Much of the arms the colonies used in fighting England for independence came from foreign countries as the colonies did not have the means of manufacturing their own or sufficient numbers of them. He thought so highly of patents that he encouraged relatives to file.
Further, as Madison wrote in Federalist No. 43 regarding constitutional rights of inventors and that portion of teh Constitution as proposed, "The utility of the clause will scarcely be questioned. The copyright of authors has been solemnly adjudged, in Great Britain, to be a right of common law. The right to useful inventions seems with equal reason to belong to the inventors. The public good fully coincides in both cases with the claims of the individuals."
Masnick and his monkeys have an unreported conflict of interest-
https://www.insightcommunity.com/cases.php?n=10&pg=1
They sell blog filler and "insights" to major corporations including MS, HP, IBM etc. who just happen to be some of the world’s most frequent patent suit defendants. Obviously, he has failed to report his conflicts as any reputable reporter would. But then Masnick and his monkeys are not reporters. They are hacks representing themselves as legitimate journalists receiving funding from huge corporate infringers. They cannot be trusted and have no credibility. All they know about patents is they don’t have any.
http://truereform.piausa.org/default.html#pt.
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Per haps after reading the letter some might wish to reconsider many of the comments made in the "property" article published a few days back.
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