{"id":1384,"date":"2012-11-26T16:10:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T20:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2012-11-26T16:10:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T20:10:52","slug":"more-fixes-for-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"more fixes for patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An addition to my <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2012\/03\/04\/fixing-copyrights-and-patents\/#.ULPFRYdlH00\">previous post on patents<\/a> is due.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a non-producing entity, ie you have a patent &#8220;just to have it&#8221; (you&#8217;re a company, not a person, and you only have patents to use as legal ammunition), you relinquish rights to sue over infringement.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not producing anything the patent covers, just like with a trademark, you lose it. Holding a patent to use as legal weaponry is at the least unethical, and likely worse &#8211; add-in the fact that the legal system currently makes it [relatively] simple for trolls to operate &#8230; and you have a totally messed-up system.<\/p>\n<p>Wired has a great article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/opinion\/2012\/11\/ff-steven-levy-the-patent-problem\">patent trolls<\/a> in issue 20.12 (see also this article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2012\/08\/the-history-and-artistic-degredation-of-patent-drawings\">patent drawings<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An addition to my previous post on patents is due. If you are a non-producing entity, ie you have a patent &#8220;just to have it&#8221; (you&#8217;re a company, not a person, and you only have patents to use as legal ammunition), you relinquish rights to sue over infringement. If you are not producing anything the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1384\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">more fixes for patents<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,8,22,31,46],"tags":[439,442,555,781,787],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-complaint","category-ideas","category-personal","category-update","tag-law","tag-legal","tag-patent","tag-trademark","tag-troll"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}