Charles, Yeh I know, had uncles in construction business, had patents on tools...we all can't be Nathan Myhrvold and be worth $650 million..man be interesting
Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On May 3, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > If you think patents are easy to get you should try applying for one. > > I have. > > Seriously, whatever one's criticisms of the USPTO, it is indisputable that > patents are a lot harder to get than copyright. Copyright is trivial. You > write something, you "fix it in a tangible medium" (which includes, by > statute, keying it into a text editor) and voila! you own the copyright on > it. That's it! Patents involve applications, years, at least a plausible > claim of novelty and usefulness, and non-trivial fees. > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 6:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Programming languages can't have copyright protection, EU court > rules > > In <[email protected]>, on 05/02/2012 > at 10:15 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> said: > >> Patents are very hard to get > > Would that that were true. USPTO fails to exclude patents that should be > invalid due to, e.g., prior art. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
