IBM Files Application to Patent The Patent Process
Reading through IT patents these days requires patience and tolerance. When you can patent common sense, there is clearly something wrong with the system. But as long as no changes are being made, you are inviting people to exploit what is available and IBM has just demonstrated what may be possible, if one of their most recent patent applications is accepted by the USPTO.
The company felt it would be beneficial to patent the patent strategy process all the way from training inventors, to competitor monitoring and protecting (i.e. suing someone) a patent from infringement. This patent does not describe anything new, but a strategy that is being pursued by anyone who owns a patent and especially patent trolls or people like Paul Allen, who is just taking another shot at suing Google for patent infringement.
The patent application could mean that IBM in fact is working on a software that automates patent management or the company simply felt it was necessary to patent the idea of filing a patent and treating it in the way it could be considered common sense. It is especially revealing how much focus the inventor put on a "defend" module that implies a lawsuit strategy. It would take a genius to figure that out.
Reading through this patent is a good lecture how a patent these days should not look like. IBM is the natural place for this idea as there is no other company that files for as many patents (and receives as many patents) as IBM does. But if the patent idea gets approved, it may not go down so well with virtually every other individual or company that files a patent as the simple filing process and even the ownership and management of a patent could be violating IBM's patent.
Perhaps IBM isn't serious about this patent and simply tries to be funny.
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This is frightening... This system MUST be fixed.
Maybe I should file a patent on how to patent a patent process.
I don't think there is any chance that this will come to pass. But, then again i've seen out patient system to much worse...
LOL This is getting silly. Apple should patent the process by which a programmer writes apps. In other words, they should patent nerds behind a desk typing code.
Then Blizzard should patent the playstyle of WoW players. In other words, scrawny nerds in white "muscle" shirts sitting at desks covered in empty Mountain Dew bottles/cans who haven't showered or combed their hair in days.
Once they're all done, I will patent the template used for filing a lawsuit against someone who you feel has violated your patent.
hmmm...i could get very rich by patenting mental masturbation. this is all i am seeing in the industry now days
I should patent breathing, I'd be the richest moron out there.
Maybe I should file a patent on how to patent a patent process.
No no, the key here is to file a patent on how to fix the patent process first and have outrageous licensing fees so no one can fix the patent process without paying you enormous sums. Then you start making the patents that game the system.
Say what??
seems like everything should be patented these days.
Soon, we'll all be paying Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Google, AMD, Intel and nVidia...just for being alive...
sick world we live in...
anyone interested in trademarking the word "patent"??
or how a human being make a logical thinking??
Well well, how are we going to process the patent to patent the patent process? XD
Patenet the patent the who what of a what what?
I have an Idea...let's fry the patent system and stick to trademarks. Ideally, in thought though, trademarks are much more beneficial and more innovative than a patenet. A patenet says "Mine", the trademark says "Recognize me a the origianl and I will pat you on the back."
I am not saying it si right...just a Theory...and no one should use it against me.
According to Wikipedia a patent is:
A set of exclusive rights granted by a state (national government) to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of an invention.
Let's all just patent the obvious. IBM isn't inventing anything but a headache.
Why don't we invent a system that pays me instead of the inventors for inventions?
I'll patent that!
fix it. peer review patents.
http://www.peertopatent.org/
I will patent the thinking process and license all thought on the cheap.
Well I will patent dreams and the REM sleep process.
I'm going to patent living. If you want to live, you've got to pay me royalties.
Why not patent the US of A constitution so that you get royalty in every country that copies it. lols,,,
if they dont do it Apple will
sick world we live in...
Did you mean sick USA I live in?
The US patent system is going to make economic recovery much much longer than it needs to be, since a broken patent system certainly isn't going to attract any investors.
This system is crazy... soon there will patents for soup, or how to open a door... common sense is out of the Patent Office minds it seems.
The real scary part is how do you know you're not infringing some patent? If I invent a new beer can opener will I violate the patent to use levers? Or the patent to use my fingers in a twisting motion? Or use of my eyes to operate tools in my hands?
Someone should copyright the word patent and then sue IBM for trying to ever speak the word.
(facepalm)
This system is crazy... soon there will patents for soup, or how to open a door... common sense is out of the Patent Office minds it seems.The real scary part is how do you know you're not infringing some patent? If I invent a new beer can opener will I violate the patent to use levers? Or the patent to use my fingers in a twisting motion? Or use of my eyes to operate tools in my hands?
1. There are patents for soup don't worry.
2. There are patents that describe the way a door could be opened ranging from obvious logic to super high tech doors.
3. You don't know, you need to do research or hire some one to do it for you and while a new patent costs you a fortune to register the research costs even more.
If you want to actually create your invention you need to do it offshore in any western country that doesn't have your invention patented or those that recognize male cow dump patents. If your product is selling well enough you can pay the license fee and start shipping it to the us or you could let a 3th party import it and circumvent patents that way. This is how to live with patents in a nutshell and not an easy solution.
I am going to patent the process of shooting the middle finger.
I should patent the use of a fruit as a logo. I would have a great retirement by suing and/or licensing so many magical devices.
All of this hype makes no sense.
We have NO IDEA of the Patent application CLAIMS. Again, for the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000th time... it is the claims which define the monopoly of the patent; NOT the title of the application, not the description part, not the drawings...
Here, the so-called "journalist," does not inform us as to the claims on record nor does he give us the application number so that we may check for ouselves. This is NOT journalism...