5 Mar
2005
5 Mar
'05
11:49 a.m.
Rainer Zocholl wrote:
jori.hamalainen@teliasonera.com 04.03.05 11:15
USPTO doesn't check google for that stuff.. :-) They take money from companies by allowing them to patent things, and decide later if that patent was a valid one.
That's the problem! If USPTO grants a patent, they get much more money than as if they would discard it! (*)
I think that other main problem, is much more often the culprit.
It is much more paperwork to reject a patent than to grant it. You have to reason why you can't grant a patent, but "OK, granted" is more or less enough in the other case.
And as the USPTO employee isn't "responsible/liable" for what he/she did, granting is much more "smooth sailing", than the "stressfull" rejection. :-(
Bis denn
--
Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as
bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer
wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated,
cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.