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Story: Patent opponents claim success

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Hello,

Please find here the opinion of a IT industry innovation leader in the U.S. The issue if we want to use the existing U.S. patent system should be to ask ourselves : what was the intention of the creators when they invented the patents system ? - and use the experience...

Please contact me if you want a detailed opinion piece.

Kind regards
Laetitia Ughetto
P.R. Parasoft Europe
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Abstract by Dr. Adam Kolawa

"The US patent system is unique because the protection of intellectual property is engraved in the US Constitution. "
(...)"When the patent law was designed, there was an implicit assumption that everyone applying for a patent had an idea and had built a product (or at least a prototype) based on that idea."
(...)"However, over the years, people lost sight of the original intention of the patent law and the concept of patents got twisted."
(...)"The US courts could technically invalidate patents for ideas that were not translated into actual products or prototypes. However, patents are rarely invalidated… very likely because it costs approximately one million US dollars to invalidate a patent. "
(...)"An alternative resolution would be for the patent law to require patent applicants to submit evidence that their ideas are complete and have actually been implemented in products."(...)

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