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Chamba
Mo'cheeba, the USPTA will grant patents to just about every Patent application if it it is applied for by a Patent lawyer in a professional manner,....ridiculous and outrageous claims are often made and often minute slight variations on obviously what is prior art is claimed and yet they get their patent approved...but that's the easy part of getting a patent for something iffy. You just have to spend a few hours reading through patents at the uspta.com, the offical USA Patents Office site or other Patent sites which have similar info to realize that..but defending such a patent is the hard part and you will and can be challenged in court by those who you said are infringing on it..and by other sharks who prey on the stupid, the greedy and the easy kills.
A flimsy patent only scares away the weak, but a shark will chew you and it up and win in court, a patent is not chiseled in stone and is not a guarantee of being litigation proof and can be beaten in court..especially those patents whose claims are way too general and varied are easily challenged and beaten by those with legitimate claims and by those with deeper pockets.
another thing which is unique about patents is the language in which they are written in, it's a special legalese that only patent lawyers could possibly fully understand, it's actually fun to read through some patents (if that rings your bell), if you are new to it, it is like nothing you have ever read before (well, unless you make a living writing fine print that is) but to a non-lawyer, Patentese as opposed to contract fine print is way more enjoyable, especially on a subject you know something about, which, ironically enough, is probably a great deal more than the suit and tie who wrote the actual patent.
A flimsy patent only scares away the weak, but a shark will chew you and it up and win in court, a patent is not chiseled in stone and is not a guarantee of being litigation proof and can be beaten in court..especially those patents whose claims are way too general and varied are easily challenged and beaten by those with legitimate claims and by those with deeper pockets.
another thing which is unique about patents is the language in which they are written in, it's a special legalese that only patent lawyers could possibly fully understand, it's actually fun to read through some patents (if that rings your bell), if you are new to it, it is like nothing you have ever read before (well, unless you make a living writing fine print that is) but to a non-lawyer, Patentese as opposed to contract fine print is way more enjoyable, especially on a subject you know something about, which, ironically enough, is probably a great deal more than the suit and tie who wrote the actual patent.
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