How about countersuing?

How about countersuing?

Posted Apr 21, 2006 16:32 UTC (Fri) by jayorke (guest, #10685)
In reply to: How about countersuing? by sepreece
Parent article: Write Free Software, Pay $203,000 to Patent Holder (Right to Create)

Patent law is flawed in that it seems to presume that in this increasingly well educated world with a population of 5 or more billion people that a person could invent something that nobody else could invent without stealing the idea. I think someone who actually believes they have invented the otherwise uninventable to be a little arrogant. I fully support copyright law and believe that people that do the work of inventing should be rewarded but I find it ridiculous to think that every thought that comes out of someones mind should need to be run against the patent database to ensure its originality. The flaw in a test of obviousness is that it doesn't properly deal with the question "obvious to who?" What may be obvious to a group of physicists who have performed similar research and have similar skills is quite different from what is obvious to other members of the population. I don't see how it could ever be justified that an inventor who never saw the works of another could owe someone for the idea they thought out in their own head.

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