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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on June 26, 2006, 09:16:30 pm

Title: U.S. Supreme Court to weigh standards for patent "obviousness"
Post by: Nemesis on June 26, 2006, 09:16:30 pm

Link to full article (http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6087946.html?part=rss&tag=6087946&subj=news)

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In a brief supporting KSR's arguments (click for PDF), Microsoft and Cisco charged that the current test applied by the Federal Circuit "hurts innovation" because it establishes "far too lenient a standard for patentability." Cisco has even built up a portfolio of patents for "defensive purposes" in order to "neutralize" a proliferation of trivial patents, the brief said.

About time!!  Now hopefully common sense will prevail and the Supremes will make a rational definition of what constitutes a non obvious patent.  Next we need the government to allow the courts to penalize companies (and individuals) who attempt to patent things that are obvious or invented by others.