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Story: Small firms 'failed' by patent law

99.9999999 percent of patent litigation involves software patents !!

For a century or more harware patents were easier to enforce and easier to validate.

Then came along "The Troublemaker"

Software patents are like a pandora's box because you never know if one or 2 key lines of code was used by Joe Blow a year earlier.

Joe is unaware of the new patent being filed that uses his code and the patent office can't search billions of lines of code to validate prior art.

So years later Joe Blow finds out the newly issued patents violated his codes years earlier which he much show proof in the way of litigation and compensation.

Solution, do not patent software but issue copywrites instead.

Further for small companies ::::

Write and file your own patents. You can do it. You don't need a Patent attorney, but of course the patent attornies will be furious with me disclosing this !!

When the patents come back with comments and look like they will be issued.

NOW get a patent attorney to clean up the patent wording, drawings, and talking with PTO.

Attorneys are not inventors and when they have to invent your patent it drives the cost up tens of thousands of dollars.

Doing your own patent filing saves tens of thousands and goes much faster.

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