IBM Patents Managing Your Patents
from the a-parting-gift dept
theodp writes “Before leaving a long IBM career last summer to head the USPTO, David Kappos managed Big Blue’s patent and trademark portfolios. Last Tuesday, the USPTO awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,630,915 to IBM for its inventive method of Managing an Intellectual Property Portfolio.”
Comments on “IBM Patents Managing Your Patents”
Maybe now they can sue patent trolls, and we’ll finally be done with those dicks.
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Maybe now they can sue patent trolls, and we’ll finally be done with those dicks.
One can always hope.
That’s the last straw. I’m suing them all. My patent on “the process of successfully receiving a patent” has been violated one too many times.
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Not to mention my patent on patent applications….
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?
I am reading that John Malone is cashing everything HE GOD Damned thing he has.
Do I really need to go his house, piss on it and tell him he’s nuts? Oh shit, this is a great idea.
You’re NUTS JOHN. STOP STOP NOW. CONTROL YOURSELF
Haha
I just realized how much I miss Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
For once I agree with Mikey
This bullshit is gotta stop someday
IBM patents its own bullshit process for bullshit patent management approved by their former chief lawyer and now PTP director Kappos
Why nobody listened to Greg Aharonyan when he said that corporate stooge should never be appointed as PTO director, regardless of his abilities ?
Apparently this self-evident truth is beyond the reach of our lawmakers since they approved the SOB for the top PTO position
They made a mockery out of 200-year old US Patent System
No wonder every techdirt lemming-punk thinks all patent holders are trolls and scumbags
Re: For once I agree with Mikey
You sir, have offended my honour … If we were Klingon, I would kill you for it.
Just because we read this does not mean we all agree with everything here.
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“No wonder every techdirt lemming-punk thinks all patent holders are trolls and scumbags”
Not all, just too many for the system to work.
Welcome to the club, sweetheart….
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Having tried to find an application package that actually performs this type of work, and having had to deal with major drawbacks associated with every application implemented on a trial basis, if this approach can actually do what the patent suggests then sign me up for a trial.
Experience teaches that this is no small matter for companies with a large “inventory” of patent, trademark, copyright, etc., both domestic and international.
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Or, you could create your own schema in an off the shelf database. Dont try to sell it though, you might get sued
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“Having tried to find an application package that actually performs this type of work, and having had to deal with major drawbacks associated with every application implemented on a trial basis, if this approach can actually do what the patent suggests then sign me up for a trial.”
Right, so it’s not the *concept* that’s noteworthy, it’s the implementation. We don’t need patents for that.
IBM to Manage the US Patent Office
It only makes since now that IBM has the patent on managing patents, that the USPTO will have to out source its self to IBM or risk getting sued.
Well played IBM, well played.
Beginning of the end?
When we start getting patents on patents, could that mean that the whole thing is about to collapse in on itself and leave the known universe? We can only hope…
Patents on managaing patents. Pretty soon someone will patent a process for managing that too.
At some point here, we’ll be dividing by zero and then we’re all screwed.
Welcome to the Department of Redundancy Department
The Department Formerly Known as the United States Patent and Trademark Office