US Patent System flawed?
Nov 18th, 2012 by anthonytse
Accord to United States Patents and Trademark Office, a patent is defined as “grant of a property right to the inventor(s) for an invention”, it is “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling” the invention in the United States or “importing” the invention into the United States.”, one can say that a patent is as simple as just filing an application to about anything to gain rights to sue others that attempt to use this.
Some very popular examples of this are the in the mobile industry, where companies like Apple and Samsung sue each other for infringement of patents constantly. Recently, in Dallas Observers Blog, it has shown that apple was awarded 38 patents recently, one of which included “page-turn”.
With the Patent Office in the US offering patents as the “page-turn”er, i truly believe that the Patent Office offering Patents are flawed. Many companies are just using Patents to secure dull and un-innovative ideas, possibly just to use and sue others, yet the Patent office is still issuing patents to such creative ideas. Companies are just using Patents unethically to accomplish there stand in the market and to gain profits by suing each other, this is just a waste of money and time to many. I suggest that the Patent Office only issue Patents to innovative and unique ideas that benefit society, like back in the days when the first light bulb was created.