> Is this kind of behavior what you are describing as "defensive"?
No. Is that the sort of "reasoning" you normally use? > Who made you the gospel of truth? What are you smoking? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of David Crayford <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2020 4:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM splitting into two companies Is this kind of behavior what you are describing as "defensive"? https://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044.html You said IBM only file defensive patents. Who made you the gospel of truth? On 2020-10-12 4:10 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > What part of "defensive patent" don't you understand. The article you cited > made it abundantly clear that the USPTO is broken. IBM is far from the only > company to file defensive patents. The intent is not to prevent others from > using the technique, but to prevent others from successfully patenting it. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > David Crayford <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2020 10:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IBM splitting into two companies > > It was me that said they were pathetic and I stand by that remark. > There's a website that has a "stupid patent of the month" which is > dominated by IBM. > > Here's a good one! > https://secure-web.cisco.com/1-jcLI-dk2XuBOqXGuXTrUxABiJbwOwRqbBNDBV0YW0k6jNpNfVVfUOZWCv2ybSGyDQgPAURzeZGDiFKNNexudcJIMR6CUgByBvhwvogf0CmuXgE3pngzNnmyFcStgw2ydJBAd5Mex27YJ6BllXpQ5ckRZd8SXcunqSd7pPa-_7sy-k_nKVwsW0vvUte9MEkwSShbJtXbcXUZAadgNpKwE5P3eG8vWb_hYyV4r5nej-pfdPSlVifozfOJNsesF6vRhHgt7YVO9X36MdVF39gP1Cvd1Xh7Ttq40a5FR_oYAoeiGAM6gx6QfFfgSYJyekP7ZmNQtYT2KhnDRjsqnh96njpO8_aeVsVm_n-vhZtLec9ErK1pxeMPEUXua2DdM_3qqxZzaI0uSOuFQJUUdcFgElBqyEYbzjcvD0me7JaTaaS6RGGaSNrlf9alf6g0yp9DJhlOypIOsXe9PC0lVLok4g/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eff.org%2Fdeeplinks%2F2017%2F02%2Fstupid-patent-month-ibm-patents-out-office-email > > A lot of my colleagues are ex IBMers and quite a few of them have their > names on patents. A lot of those patents are stupid! Any product feature > that they designed > that was considered novel they lodged a patent request for. They are the > first ones to acknowledge that the process was brain-damaged. IBM wanted > to use patents > as bargaining chips. > > On 2020-10-12 12:27 AM, Bill Johnson wrote: >> I agree. It wasn’t me who said they were pathetic. >> >> >> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone >> >> >> On Sunday, October 11, 2020, 12:26 PM, R.S. <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Patents are not pathetic. Other companies still make new patents. >> Including those like Microsoft and Google. >> Patents are still valid and important even if some company have only few >> of them or cannot make any. >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
