PatentHackers – A new platform to help companies kill patent trolls
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It's great to go after all patents filed by some troll, and that needs doing, but for the parties that are being sued by trolls specific action on specific patents would be far more beneficial.
Most of the patents litigated today were filed quite a while ago and if we don't concentrate on finding the prior art that might help a party sued under those particular patents it might well get lost. So concentrate on the patents that are actively litigated first, then concentrate on the patents that can still be easily squashed and then work from the oldest to the newest.
I realize that's a tall order but this is imo the best way to prioritize this kind of work. The main reason for the prioritization like this is that patents are filed in a system that does not forget, prior art is not filed in a central place and even stuff that happened less than two decades ago can be almost impossible to locate any proof of that will stand up in court. So older stuff should get priority.
Incidentally, Joao Controls is still on the warpath with their bogus live video patents.
The same on other pages with the menu on the left, clicking it does not work. Typo: 'all quest[s]' 'my quest[s]' 'All payments will be sent directly to the PayPal account that we will fu[r]ther inquire' (in fact that whole sentence doesn't parse)
I really like the idea of the rewards though. Someone willing to spend some time on the research could stay in business with this.
Or does this still require a company to be as well capitalized as Newegg in order to be able to withstand a patent attack, and thus doesn't really matter for the majority of us?
For an already issued patent, I understand it's worth trying to put the trial on hold while it gets re-examined. A reexamination is generally much cheaper than a patent trial.
Some patents trolls will buy up selected patents that have been filed by others.
So the opposition applications will likely not be done because you'd have to oppose a whole ton of patents more or less on principle without knowing whether or not those patents would ever be used to litigate.
The patent office should get better at doing its job and should not simply approve the vast majority of what goes past their desks without doing actual work, and should make the filer pay a stiff fine if they miss disclosing prior art should the patent be refused or overturned.
Not that that is ever going to happen, but the current system favours the applicant way too much.
(Ok Robert I will fix this I promise)
- Signup with Facebook is broken (invalid url?) - Private is spelled "privite" (incorrect) - Submitting a signup form missing one input causes it to clear out. - There is no clear indication that fields are mandatory. I guessed that you didn't need my school/job, but it looks like it was necessary. - Why do you need my school/job? - Dropdown boxes cannot be tabbed-between (tab button doesn't work) - When I move my mouse inputs move too.
User background help us curate all the submissions more effectively.
These mistakes are not uncommon. I often get the feeling in those cases that such pedestrian concerns are beneath the coolness of what we are doing. That is the impression I get (even if it is wrong). It feels to me like the Flash enthusiasts 10+ years ago, for example, making lots of restaurant sites that were highly unusable but looked pretty.
I think, making it very easy for people to share info about worthwhile efforts is a good idea.
I do really hope you all can make this a success. It seems to me to be a potentially very worthwhile effort.
IMO we've come full circle back to this "form over function" with every site requiring multiple js libraries.
Whatever happened to good ol' static html with some CSS?