IBM Drops Outsourcing Patent, After Outsourcing Patent Review To Slashdot
from the that's-how-it-works,-you-see dept
IBM consistently is one of the more aggressive companies in applying for patents (and, at times, enforcing those patents). However, in the last few years, the company has started realizing just how much patents can harm innovation -- and the company has been trying to work on ways to improve patent quality (though, it still gets involved in some questionable patent lawsuits). Over the weekend, however, the company got quite a bit of attention after Slashdot posted about a recent IBM patent application that appeared to cover figuring out how to best offshore workers. It was the type of thing that sounded so absurd that lots of other sites and the press picked up on it... leading IBM to apologize withdraw the patent application, put the "process" into the public domain and saying that with its new processes, it wouldn't have applied for that patent at all. This is a nice surprise, as you could see most companies simply trying to defend whatever ridiculous patent they had applied for.
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Makes sense
1. Patent outsourcing
2. Competitors can't outsource
3. Competitors must hire expensive domestic labor
4. Your product prices are much cheaper
5. Crush competition
6. Market domination
7. Take over the world
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Makes sense 2
1. Patent outsourcing
2. ???
3. Profit
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i like it.
if i can get my laptops cheaper than i will be happy. but i don't want to see to many jobs go over there. my dad dose work for them. and half his clients are India.
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Re: i like it.
Dood, liek cann ewe spel? Loox liek yu knead a spel-chekr
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Sure why not. You put together a way to sort out the best way to make a profit ? Isn't that what business does ? And try to patent the software that does it to ? hummmmmm. Sounds all very reasonable to me.
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OK, but what about the GUI-checkbox patent?
Another silly patent app people need to watch out for is the one on GUI checkboxes...
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Think!
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