Patent office view?

Patent office view?

Posted Jul 13, 2004 3:57 UTC (Tue) by mgh (guest, #5696)
Parent article: Oracle patents content management systems

Maybe the USPO thinking goes like this:

- we recieve dumb patent
- we do prior art searches on our patent files only
- no one has patented this yet so we allow patent
- if its challenged there is no cost to USPO
- anyone wishing to prevent use of their IP must patent or we will give the patent to someoneelse.
- encourage more and more patents because we allow anything not already patented
- profit

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