Patent reform: Who's on first?

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I believe that the root of the problem is

..The practice of awarding patents on CONCEPTS or IDEAS rather than specific IMPLEMENTATIONS of those concepts. Take Amazon's 'One click Purchase" concept. When their developers created the proprietary code that allowed AMAZON's customers to purchase items with on mouse click, THAT SPECIFIC IMPLEMENTATION (i.e. the code itself) should have been the basis for the patent.

For AMAZON to claim that no one else can ever implement the concept of a one-click purchase system because they developed ONE method of doing so is ludicrous, anti-competitive, and works to stifle innovation, something this country certainly doesn't need any more of. It is exactly this kind of wrong-minded dollar-ggrabbing that is sending our economy back to the stone-age. Oh. And in the stone age we are heading for, one MICROSTONE has the patent for fashioning naturally occuring igneous, sedimentary, conglomerate, or other mineral formations into things they will call "Tools".

Of course, GOOGLE's patent for "using naturally occuring protruberences of differing lengths and diameters from rooted plant formations to increase leverage and power exerted by human or animals" will cause a merger of the two giants. Microstone's SPEAR is useless without GOOGLE's STICK.

I think I will patent the concept of repeatedly using rhythmic muscular force to create and dispel a vacuum in the thoracic cavity of living creatures, thereby causing one or more bladder-like organs to fill with air, and then release that air to prepare for the next repetition.

Let's see ANYONE NOT infringe on that one for very long! The frightening thing is, the way things are now, where someone can actually receive a patent for the WHEEL, I might just get it.

Posted by: SysAn63   Posted on: 09/13/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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