[Chad Winters]

http://ireaderreview.com/2009/03/24/apple-sued-by-monec-iphone-ereader/

seriously patent law seems to make little sense in the modern world. When the nation had like 3 "inventions" a year this might have made sense. Now all you need to do is look 5 years ahead to what everyone knows someone will be doing someday as a logical evolution of current technology and patent it and then sue anyone who actually goes to the trouble of making it (because you have no real idea how or interest) and then sue them.

This article really Pi$$ed me off!

I'm going to patent the idea of faster than light travel "by some means" and if anyone actually does it they owe me big!!

 

[Chad Winters]

Intellectual Property Law is a very difficult, intricate area of the law. Those attorneys and patent examiners practicing patent law, either in private practice or at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, are highly educated, many of whom are engineers, hold PhDs in fields such as biochemistry, etc. and graduated from some of the best schools in the country such as Harvard, Yale, and MIT. Each patent examiner is extremely knowledgeable in the area of technology of which they are examining patent applications and they follow the letter of the law.

possibly, even given that though....the law tends to be written by elected idiots who can't program their VCR (or worse yet, by lobbyists). You can follow the letter of the law and end up with unworkable stupidity as as seen in the examples above.

 

[Chad Winters]

agreed!!