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Current Patent Law and our Digital World Do Not Mix

This article covers the injuntion issue in the case, as I understand it, but I sure hope the Supreme Court revues the bigger issue in digital patents and the problems there and rules 100% for Ebay. They have not done ONE thing wrong or used any technology anyone has any right to hold a patent on or take them to court over!

The fundamental flaw in the system stems from the fact that most if not all information technology has no right to a patent. Its nature and essential substance has nothing to do with patentable invention, in my opinion.
The current crazy lanscape of lawsuits surrounding these obscure patents and attempting to enforce those patents is the single fact that patent law in the United States is flawed. 50 year ago a guy in a garage with a good idea and a little money could engineer something unique, or invent a process that because of its physical nature, could be articulated on paper and in patents and hold up against all kinds of challenges, like prior art, materials, obscurity, and peer challenges in the industry. The problem with patently any information-based technology (some hardware included) is that most of all the "parts" and "code" and frameworks that make up the computer world are based on governement inventions and research or the work of standards bodies (w3c) or public domain origins that cannot be traced back to an inventor. What we have now are thousands of businesses combining 1's and 0's and alphanumeric code strings and pixels on computer montors and combinations of clicks in various parts of a screen or various events inside programs and claiming that is an invention!!!! Its a bunch of b*llsh$t, and anyone working in the information technology field, like myself (software engineer) knows that non one alive today truly has any claim to patent anything in the information landscape as we know it today, period!

If you want proof of how crazy and out of hand the system is, look at all the ridiculous and ill-informed patents the US Patent Office continues to crank out...many of which they are now revoking (IE the RIM case). Look at the JPEG patent now under review, and the XML patents and numerous others. How can anyone claim patents on these technologies...when millions of people use them and develop against them all over the world in billionsof sites and software every minuite of every day????

I sure hope someone on the Supreme Court wakes up and takes a stand against technology patents and turns this "short bus" of mongoloids around and helps put a stop to these silly little companies that now use illegal intellectual property to hold hostage the technologies that all of have a right to freely use and innovate against. We as taxpayers paid for most of these...they should be in the public domain. This will put allot of lame patent attorneys out on the streets, but se la vi!

Posted by: wildranger   Posted on: 03/29/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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