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Chrispy_ wrote:US Patent system: Irrelevant outside the US.
Its a shame your politicians are so slow to fix such a useless and regularly abused tool. It actually works today in a way that is almost tangential to the original intent, doing far more harm than it could ever hope to nullify with valid patent cases.
Chrispy_ wrote:US Patent system: Irrelevant outside the US.
derFunkenstein wrote:Outside of their countries, yes.
Chrispy_ wrote:That's not true. I don't know where I read this, but many countries around the world base their patent systems on the U.S. patent system and U.S. court rulings on patents due to the U.S. global market / financial / trade importance.US Patent system: Irrelevant outside the US.
flip-mode wrote:Chrispy_ wrote:That's not true. I don't know where I read this, but many countries around the world base their patent systems on the U.S. patent system and U.S. court rulings on patents due to the U.S. global market / financial / trade importance.US Patent system: Irrelevant outside the US.
cynan wrote:At least one US judge (the one who through out the Apple vs Moto case a while ago) thinks that perhaps patents shouldn't apply to software
Chrispy_ wrote:There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of products on store shelves throughout Europe that violate Apple patents, because Apple patents things like a touch swipe, basic shapes like wedges and rectangles, and all kinds of stupid **** that we've seen over here long before Apple was resurrected from the grave by Steve "RDF" Jobs. In short, stuff gets done over here without the legal squabling over irrelevant crap that blights everything in the US. This may be an antagonistic statement but deep down you know it's true and resent it as much as the next guy. Just dig up stats on profession breakdown per capita by country and you'll go boggle-eyed when you see just what percentage of Americans earn a living via the legal system in some way; It's orders of magnitude higher than everywhere elseon the planet.
BobbinThreadbare wrote:Someone posted on the front page yesterday that Apple has filed 60% of patent lawsuits about mobile technology.