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alanthonyc on May 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Take a stand against patent trolls

The MacroSolve patent[1][2] was requested in 2003 and granted in 2010: forms on devices that transmit data to web servers.

The USPTO is broken.

[1]http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/05/worse-than-lodsys-ma...

[2]http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

brlewis on May 20, 2011 [–]

It is impossible to expect the USPTO to determine novelty and non-obviousness for software patents. Imagine how difficult it would be to examine mechanical engineering patents if millions of people carried machine shops around in their backpacks.

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