Comments on: Here come the design patents: new law boosts rights in shapes, designs http://gigaom.com/2012/12/27/here-come-the-design-patents-new-law-boosts-rights-in-shapes-designs/ Fri, 24 May 2013 09:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: kehas http://gigaom.com/2012/12/27/here-come-the-design-patents-new-law-boosts-rights-in-shapes-designs/#comment-1292369 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:01:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=597508#comment-1292369 Design examiners could use the work. Different areas of the Patent Office have different backlogs and design has always had one of the tightest backlogs which reduces the overtime and hiring in that area.

]]> By: AFD http://gigaom.com/2012/12/27/here-come-the-design-patents-new-law-boosts-rights-in-shapes-designs/#comment-1288465 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:19:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=597508#comment-1288465 Instead of encouraging one to build a better mousetrap, these kinds of patent laws insure all mousetraps will have to look different whether they get the job done or not. Real innovation has gone out the window.

]]> By: Gabriel Sheerer http://gigaom.com/2012/12/27/here-come-the-design-patents-new-law-boosts-rights-in-shapes-designs/#comment-1288453 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=597508#comment-1288453 Next, Apple will sue you for looking live Steve Jobs. Ridiculous. Big joke.

]]> By: Pete Ferling http://gigaom.com/2012/12/27/here-come-the-design-patents-new-law-boosts-rights-in-shapes-designs/#comment-1288448 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:55:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=597508#comment-1288448 Epic fail now in writing.

]]> By: Bean Cube http://gigaom.com/2012/12/27/here-come-the-design-patents-new-law-boosts-rights-in-shapes-designs/#comment-1288442 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:47:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=597508#comment-1288442 Yeah, just making up more languages for those patent design laws to steal from the public. We know those expensive corporation law firms will never be able to stop, they are paid to making up languages and layered languages then layered procedures. That is the cheapest way for innovation. No real technology researches are really needed. Just pretend we all are those stupid ancient Jewish population, we should let them counting and naming our gods again now.

]]> By: RobertJCrowley http://gigaom.com/2012/12/27/here-come-the-design-patents-new-law-boosts-rights-in-shapes-designs/#comment-1288439 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:44:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=597508#comment-1288439 All this does is unify the design patent rules like they did with utility patents in 1995. Articles like these misstate a lot. They claim the patent system is “broken”. I am an independent inventor, in the US, with over 100 patents and applications, and I make my living inventing new products. It is a lot like songwriting – not every song is a hit. Yes, large companies have an advantage. But to say that patents are stifling innovation – totally false. I could not invest my time and money in new products without patent protection. Nobody can, except those who swipe other people’s designs.

]]> By: Doug Webb http://gigaom.com/2012/12/27/here-come-the-design-patents-new-law-boosts-rights-in-shapes-designs/#comment-1287458 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:14:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=597508#comment-1287458 Innovation is the golden egg, competition is the goose and patents are the axe that will kill the goose.

]]> By: Oscar Goldman http://gigaom.com/2012/12/27/here-come-the-design-patents-new-law-boosts-rights-in-shapes-designs/#comment-1287296 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:59:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=597508#comment-1287296 Disgraceful, and exactly the OPPOSITE direction from what the USPTO should be doing.

More proof that Obama is woefully out of touch with the real world and what’s killing “innovation and entrepreneurship” in this country. Total hypocrisy. He just made it even easier for people to use the patent office for exactly what it’s supposed to prevent: the theft of people’s work.

]]> By: Matthew A Myers http://gigaom.com/2012/12/27/here-come-the-design-patents-new-law-boosts-rights-in-shapes-designs/#comment-1287141 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:31:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=597508#comment-1287141 This is going to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. This will cause the cost of consumer goods that have base utility to become more and more inflated. It will end up being big companies who can afford the patents and to attack infringers, vs. the little guys.

]]> By: transfire http://gigaom.com/2012/12/27/here-come-the-design-patents-new-law-boosts-rights-in-shapes-designs/#comment-1287026 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:42:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=597508#comment-1287026 The first chapter of my Economics 101 text mentions that if everyone had “replicators” that could magically produce anything one desired, the there would be essentially no need for economics at all. I realize now the flaw in that delightful thought.

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