Comments on: Patent Office says P2P bad for you http://gigaom.com/2007/05/03/patent-office-says-p2p-bad-for-you/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:49:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2007/05/03/patent-office-says-p2p-bad-for-you/#comment-169516 Fri, 04 May 2007 22:54:16 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/patent-office-says-p2p-bad-for-you/#comment-169516 I think by corniche, Om meant a Rolls Royce Corniche — the back of which is a great place to enjoy your caviar and champagne. Fun fact: this car is named after a particular road, The Grand Corniche in France. Something tells me that The Grand Corniche is indeed a road that winds along the side of a steep coast.

]]> By: Steve G. http://gigaom.com/2007/05/03/patent-office-says-p2p-bad-for-you/#comment-169515 Fri, 04 May 2007 12:40:43 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/patent-office-says-p2p-bad-for-you/#comment-169515

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the geniuses who are keeping patent attorneys in caviar, champagne and corniches

Om, as a patent attorney, I do not eat caviar (mostly because I couldn’t afford it), I think I might have two bottles of champagne in my house somewhere, and I had to look up the definition of “corniche” (to save anyone else the trouble, from dictionary.com, a corniche is “A road that winds along the side of a steep coast or cliff.”

Anyway, it’s really the Federal Circuit (the appeals courts that handles all patent appeal cases) that keeps us in business. :-)

]]> By: G http://gigaom.com/2007/05/03/patent-office-says-p2p-bad-for-you/#comment-169514 Fri, 04 May 2007 12:35:54 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/patent-office-says-p2p-bad-for-you/#comment-169514 OM- I think if you read the report – it is clear in the foreward the authors presented this unsolicited to John Dudas – and based on his initial read and his role as an undersectretary asked for a more detailed report. Why is that so bad? I deal with the patent office quite a bit both as an inventor and as an officer of my company (which owns among others a few P2P patents/patent applications). Yes they need to do better – but that does not mean such exercises as the case in point are unnecessary. Quite the contrary – when you have technologies that enable infrigment of copyrights, the USPTO which is the body examining and granting those same rights has an obligation to highlight the potential for technologies to infringe on copyrights. I think if we had more of these discourses regarding prior art, the less the opportunity for unjustified patent grants.

]]> By: hank williams http://gigaom.com/2007/05/03/patent-office-says-p2p-bad-for-you/#comment-169513 Fri, 04 May 2007 09:29:30 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/patent-office-says-p2p-bad-for-you/#comment-169513 I dont know how much the study cost or the intended audience, but it seems perfectly reasonable to me that the government should be telling its employees not to use file sharing networks and to provide detailed and reasonable explanantions as to why in order to maximize compliance. The issue about national security is even more troubling and, in my mind, not something to be made light of at all. I am not sure why you think this is some kind of joke.

]]> By: Guillaume http://gigaom.com/2007/05/03/patent-office-says-p2p-bad-for-you/#comment-169512 Fri, 04 May 2007 04:22:26 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/patent-office-says-p2p-bad-for-you/#comment-169512 About the term “p2p”: Maybe we should start distinguishing between the technology and the applications using it. P2P is an efficient way to distribute media. You don’t necessarily need p2p to illegally share copyright material, and similarly you can have fully legit services leveraging p2p to the benefits of users, service providers, content owners…my 2 cents.

]]> By: Chris http://gigaom.com/2007/05/03/patent-office-says-p2p-bad-for-you/#comment-169511 Fri, 04 May 2007 04:06:15 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/patent-office-says-p2p-bad-for-you/#comment-169511 They should be worrying more about the patent system (helping innovation or lawyers?). Also, P2P downloads don’t take 60 months.

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