[Leaplist] FYI, evidence of realities of IP

[Jim Hartley]

Take a survey of 200 randomly selected IT professionals (or other 
appropriate field). If as many as one-third of those surveyed think it 
is obvious, then it is. Or maybe one-third is too high, maybe a smaller 
number would do. Anyway, this would reduce the number of dumb patents by 
a HUGE percentage.

Jim Hartley

Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 18:21, Phil Barnett wrote:
>   
>> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 12:52, Steve Litt wrote:
>>     
>>> Also, as has been stated many times before, the patent office shouldn't
>>> grant patents to obvious things, business processes, etc.
>>>       
>> Define "obvious".
>>     
>
> One click ordering,  html links to name a couple. There are gray areas, but a 
> lot of patents have been awarded waaaaay into the obvious zone.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
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