What do you think of today's patent wars?

*BlackFox · Post by *BlackFox » Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:02 pm

What do you think about all these "patent wars" going on between companies
such as Google, Apple etc.. And other crazy patents in general?

omier · Post by **omier** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:41 pm

End war. Make peace.

poehalcho · Post by **poehalcho** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:54 pm

america needs to fix their patenting system. it's retarded.

penfold1992 · Post by **penfold1992** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 10:09 pm

apple wants to patent life... everyone else tries to stop them, that appears to be the main part of it to me =S

BuDo · Post by **BuDo** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 11:42 pm

I want to put a patent on air.... So I can stop microsoft, apple, google, samsung, etc from using my patent...

Toshiharu · Post by **Toshiharu** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:58 am

poehalcho wrote:america needs to fix their patenting system. it's retarded.

In a nutshell. What's even more retarded was Edge Games owning the word Edge

*BlackFox · Post by *BlackFox » Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:02 pm

Motorized ice cream cone
A novelty amusement eating receptacle for supporting, rotating and sculpting a portion of ice cream or similarly malleable food while it is being consumed comprising: a hand-held housing, a cup rotatably supported by the hand-held housing and adapted to receive and contain a portion of ice cream or food product of similar consistency, and a drive mechanism in the hand-held housing for imparting rotation upon the cup and rotationally feeding its contents against a person's outstretched tongue.

Crazy patent of the Day?

poehalcho · Post by **poehalcho** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:13 pm

BuDo wrote:I want to put a patent on air.... So I can stop microsoft, apple, google, samsung, etc from using my patent...

you know what the worst part is?

Spoiler!

penfold1992 · Post by **penfold1992** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:14 am

apple patenting everything isnt a stereotype. do they have a patent for "slide to unlock" when... i knew of PDA's that had a similar feature 5 years before that =S

*BlackFox · Post by *BlackFox » Fri Dec 07, 2012 11:46 am

poehalcho wrote:
BuDo wrote:I want to put a patent on air.... So I can stop microsoft, apple, google, samsung, etc from using my patent...

you know what the worst part is?

Spoiler!

Apple already owns that for their macbook.

ROFL
What you gonna do now? @BuDo Now that your "Patent" dream fall apart?

omier · Post by **omier** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 12:41 pm

*BlackFox wrote:
poehalcho wrote:
BuDo wrote:I want to put a patent on air.... So I can stop microsoft, apple, google, samsung, etc from using my patent...

you know what the worst part is?

Spoiler!

Apple already owns that for their macbook.

ROFL
What you gonna do now? @BuDo Now that your "Patent" dream fall apart?

Water.

*BlackFox · Post by *BlackFox » Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:23 pm

Sanktum wrote:Water.

Oh crap... It seems like it's too late

Apple snags patent for water-damage detection
Company's patent describes a detector that gives customer service representatives
an easy way to determine how badly damaged a product is due to water.

Read More Here

omier · Post by **omier** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 5:29 pm

Well, fuck. But you can patent anything these days, so I'll just patent water itself. Then people will have to ask for my permission to use it.
If that doesn't work I'll try food.

Toshiharu · Post by **Toshiharu** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 6:57 am

Sanktum wrote:Well, fuck. But you can patent anything these days, so I'll just patent water itself. Then people will have to ask for my permission to use it.
If that doesn't work I'll try food.

Too late. I own the rights to Pizza. Step it up.

Post by **Avalanche** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:50 am

Sanktum wrote:Well, fuck. But you can patent anything these days, so I'll just patent water itself. Then people will have to ask for my permission to use it.
If that doesn't work I'll try food.

Can't patent food/ingredients, only the directions in which is made.

All this patent stuff is complete bullshit and does more harm than good. Smaller companies have no chance in hell to grow and innovate without some big corp like Apple, Microsoft or Samsung pointing their lawyers at everyone.

penfold1992 · Post by **penfold1992** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:03 pm

thats the point... they dont want any competition so they kill it before it starts.

the real problem is... people would rather buy apple stuff because its good rather then the situation we have had for the last 10 years which has been.... thats all weve had because apple have prevented anyone from making a better product.

make the product better rather then spending time preventing other people from trying to make a better product, theyre obviously scared.

Bartic · Post by **Bartic** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:12 pm

penfold1992 wrote:thats the point... they dont want any competition so they kill it before it starts.

the real problem is... people would rather buy apple stuff because its good rather then the situation we have had for the last 10 years which has been.... thats all weve had because apple have prevented anyone from making a better product.

make the product better rather then spending time preventing other people from trying to make a better product, theyre obviously scared.

Discussable.

penfold1992 · Post by **penfold1992** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 3:40 pm

i said they would rather buy it BECAUSE it was good... im not saying they are good

*BlackFox · Post by *BlackFox » Sat Dec 08, 2012 7:59 pm

Avalanche wrote:All this patent stuff is complete bullshit and does more harm than good. Smaller companies have no chance in hell to grow and innovate without some big corp like Apple, Microsoft or Samsung pointing their lawyers at everyone.

I couldn't agree more. It's getting downright ridiculous.
Seriously... the "law of patents" should definitely be changed.

Toshiharu · Post by **Toshiharu** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:08 pm

*BlackFox wrote:
Avalanche wrote:All this patent stuff is complete bullshit and does more harm than good. Smaller companies have no chance in hell to grow and innovate without some big corp like Apple, Microsoft or Samsung pointing their lawyers at everyone.
I couldn't agree more. It's getting downright ridiculous.
Seriously... the "law of patents" should definitely be changed.

It really should. Patenting an idea that you don't have plans to ever use? Why? Suddenly here comes some random dude that made it and gets sued out the ass while some big company comes and swoops up free money.

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