money.cnn.com— BlackBerry maker Research in Motion will face a patent lawsuit from mobile email company Visto seeking an injunction and monetary damages, according to Visto.
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Two words: WORKING PROTOTYPE!That's all that needs to be changed. No prototype, no patent. I'd be in favour of a limited patent type on ideas provided you can demonstrate you're working on the prototype, say 2 years or something. This whole notion that you have some sort of endless monopoly because "I thought of it first" is completely absurd. Make it, or shut up.
Actually, they should have refused to pay, pull their product from the US market and force them to make changes. Fight fire with fire I say.Would have happened overnight - the US gov't is addicted to their blackberries.
UezeU: That's the point: reduce the workload of the USPTO by demanding a working prototype. It would reduce the number of patent submissions. Ideas should not be patented - inventions should.
fishyjoeMay 2, 2006
I'm suprised anything can be invented these days without falling under some broad patent.
janglesMay 2, 2006
The patent system in the States is absurd. This should not be happening. this compnay is simply looking for a handout due to RIM success.
run4yourlivesMay 2, 2006
Two words: WORKING PROTOTYPE!That's all that needs to be changed. No prototype, no patent. I'd be in favour of a limited patent type on ideas provided you can demonstrate you're working on the prototype, say 2 years or something. This whole notion that you have some sort of endless monopoly because "I thought of it first" is completely absurd. Make it, or shut up.
run4yourlivesMay 2, 2006
Actually, they should have refused to pay, pull their product from the US market and force them to make changes. Fight fire with fire I say.Would have happened overnight - the US gov't is addicted to their blackberries.
mouskyMay 2, 2006
UezeU: That's the point: reduce the workload of the USPTO by demanding a working prototype. It would reduce the number of patent submissions. Ideas should not be patented - inventions should.
canuckmakemMay 2, 2006
LEAVE MY FRIGGIN CRACKBERRY ALONE!!!!!!
caughtthinkingMay 3, 2006
JESUS. I would so vote for a person who makes patent reform a priority.
locojonesMay 3, 2006
Duh, ideas cannot be patented. Only practical implementations of ideas can.
technocouchMay 20, 2006
Great! Now I get to field a million "whatcha gonna do if my blackberry goes kaput" questions.