What part of "defensive patent" don't you understand. The article you cited made it abundantly clear that the USPTO is broken. IBM is far from the only company to file defensive patents. The intent is not to prevent others from using the technique, but to prevent others from successfully patenting it.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2020 10:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM splitting into two companies It was me that said they were pathetic and I stand by that remark. There's a website that has a "stupid patent of the month" which is dominated by IBM. Here's a good one! https://secure-web.cisco.com/1-jcLI-dk2XuBOqXGuXTrUxABiJbwOwRqbBNDBV0YW0k6jNpNfVVfUOZWCv2ybSGyDQgPAURzeZGDiFKNNexudcJIMR6CUgByBvhwvogf0CmuXgE3pngzNnmyFcStgw2ydJBAd5Mex27YJ6BllXpQ5ckRZd8SXcunqSd7pPa-_7sy-k_nKVwsW0vvUte9MEkwSShbJtXbcXUZAadgNpKwE5P3eG8vWb_hYyV4r5nej-pfdPSlVifozfOJNsesF6vRhHgt7YVO9X36MdVF39gP1Cvd1Xh7Ttq40a5FR_oYAoeiGAM6gx6QfFfgSYJyekP7ZmNQtYT2KhnDRjsqnh96njpO8_aeVsVm_n-vhZtLec9ErK1pxeMPEUXua2DdM_3qqxZzaI0uSOuFQJUUdcFgElBqyEYbzjcvD0me7JaTaaS6RGGaSNrlf9alf6g0yp9DJhlOypIOsXe9PC0lVLok4g/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eff.org%2Fdeeplinks%2F2017%2F02%2Fstupid-patent-month-ibm-patents-out-office-email A lot of my colleagues are ex IBMers and quite a few of them have their names on patents. A lot of those patents are stupid! Any product feature that they designed that was considered novel they lodged a patent request for. They are the first ones to acknowledge that the process was brain-damaged. IBM wanted to use patents as bargaining chips. On 2020-10-12 12:27 AM, Bill Johnson wrote: > I agree. It wasn’t me who said they were pathetic. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Sunday, October 11, 2020, 12:26 PM, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> > wrote: > > Patents are not pathetic. Other companies still make new patents. > Including those like Microsoft and Google. > Patents are still valid and important even if some company have only few > of them or cannot make any. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
