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A casualty in the patent wars

A casualty in the patent wars

Posted Jul 27, 2012 12:50 UTC (Fri) by shentino (subscriber, #76459)
In reply to: A casualty in the patent wars by JoeBuck
Parent article: A casualty in the patent wars

This just creates a catch 22

The courts defer to the USPTO's judgement on validity, while the USPTO just rubber stamps everything and lets the courts sort it out.

With both of them passing the buck to each other, neither of them are weeding anything out and the lawyers win by default.


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