Active Topics

 


Reply
Thread Tools
Posts: 535 | Thanked: 598 times | Joined on Apr 2011 @ Republic of the Philippines
#11
Originally Posted by zdanee View Post
You can patent human genes and can ask for cash if someone even tries to do research on it. Your sad little genetic-based disease can be someones goldmine even before a cure is found. Talking about trolls...
is this for real? you can't even extend the research without paying?
 
Posts: 482 | Thanked: 550 times | Joined on Oct 2010
#12
Originally Posted by vetsin View Post
is this for real? you can't even extend the research without paying?
Unfortunately, yes. Which is how genetic research companies (such as Monsanto) are able to become so incredibly rich: by patenting every single thing they discover or make. Anyone who wants to actually do something with it has to pay them.
 
Sopwith's Avatar
Posts: 337 | Thanked: 283 times | Joined on Nov 2009 @ NYC
#13
The patent must be invalidated in the US as well, based on the prior art.
See this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-KS...layer_embedded


The funny thing is, I remember reading about the Neonode before even it was released, and that there was hype building up about it -- and then suddenly it faded away. Seems that the iPhone stole a lot of its thunder, as well as a few seminal ideas...

I applaud Google for pissing all over the broken patent system. If not them, manufacturers in Asia are going to do it anyway. If you have an invention, make a product, sell it and profit -- or go pound sand.
__________________
In anticipation of TMO's obsolescence, and hoping to meet you all again: elsewhere on the interwebs, I am Dr Doppio.
 
TransTech's Avatar
Posts: 671 | Thanked: 876 times | Joined on Mar 2011
#14
i think the whole patent system s**ks especially slide to unlock, clock designs, GUI interface or bla bla ... jus a big lol for them making this stuff patent...

i think; then everything shown on a fiction film should be patented because they had that idea or vision before anyone else did...
 
Daneel's Avatar
Posts: 549 | Thanked: 698 times | Joined on Apr 2010
#15
Go team USA!
 
Temporal's Avatar
Posts: 323 | Thanked: 189 times | Joined on Oct 2010 @ Brazil
#16
Just another example of how the patent system is broken and how corporations just slow things down.

Yay.
__________________
Love and Goodness are not a property. Are not a franchising. They are present in each one of us, and must be cultivated with KNOWLEDGE.
 
Reply


 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 23:27.