Wow! I'd love to hear more details and the other half of this story about a supposed patent shyster.
I'ts becoming clearer and clearer that the US patent systems is no longer working for individual inventors.
On the other hand, the villain in this story, the inventor with the putatively false patents, was dead. You wonder how fairly his patents could be defended with him unable to offer testimony.
One thing I’ve often wondered of late is this: With all the patent agreements we’ve made, what’s to stop villains in other countries from filing false patents and then coming after US companies? This assumes that the US does not have the world’s worst patent office… which may be more optimistic than warranted.
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Hey! A new blog! Cool!
Interesting story. Litigation is just out of control in the US, and people are using it to get money from simply settling cases that they may not win if they went to court, because the other party (that settles) doesn't want to put up the fight.
Can you say "cost-benefit analysis?"
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