Blog everything you can to prevent obvious patents
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A new field for software related bloggers: "So, now is the time for all good geeks to come to the aid of there software. The first thing to do is to start blogging about every obvious invention you can think of. It doesn’t matter what it is.[^] If you think of it, blog it. Blog everything you can."
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A new field for software related bloggers: "So, now is the time for all good geeks to come to the aid of there software. The first thing to do is to start blogging about every obvious invention you can think of. It doesn’t matter what it is.[^] If you think of it, blog it. Blog everything you can."
That won't stop idiot companies from patenting obvious "inventions". But if you get sued for using something obvious, a blog entry can prove that the patent is illegal. CPians are doing just that: We write articles about everything and make obvious "inventions" visible even for lawyers. :cool:
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That won't stop idiot companies from patenting obvious "inventions". But if you get sued for using something obvious, a blog entry can prove that the patent is illegal. CPians are doing just that: We write articles about everything and make obvious "inventions" visible even for lawyers. :cool:
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Corinna John wrote:
We write articles about everything and make obvious "inventions" visible even for lawyers.
This was actually advice that I gave one of my clients a couple years ago--document the architecture in the public domain so someone like Microsoft won't make some stupidly obvious patent. The result was a few articles we co-authored but we never finished the series. I'm doing the same thing with my own work.[^], in addition to the article writing. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
Corinna John wrote:
We write articles about everything and make obvious "inventions" visible even for lawyers.
This was actually advice that I gave one of my clients a couple years ago--document the architecture in the public domain so someone like Microsoft won't make some stupidly obvious patent. The result was a few articles we co-authored but we never finished the series. I'm doing the same thing with my own work.[^], in addition to the article writing. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith