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[haggholm]

United States Patent Application 666,443,556

REJECTED due to a large number of cases of prior art.
SEE ALSO US Patent No. 5,960,411

Method and process for building a monopoly by means of patenting trivial ideas

Abstract

A business method for profiting or profiteering without substantial creativity or innovation is described. The US Patent Office, through incompetence, ignorance, and/or negligence, does not enforce the "nonobvious" clause of patent application requirements. By filing unreasonable numbers of applications, a company may procure a large number of patents on obvious solutions to trivial problems. Competitors lacking a similar collections of patents may then be sued into bankruptcy or highly damaging settlements. Alternatively, a company lacking engineers and/or creative professionals may acquire patent portfolios and base its business model on litigation.

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Comments

[evillenick.livejournal.com]

I already have the patent on this, and you shall be hearing from my lawyers.