Any article related to patents, I just read the title and come to the comment section.
Lol me to
Any article related to patents, I just read the title and come to the comment section.
Why are the requesters allowed to be anonymous?
Are they sending it in anonymously or is USPTO masking them but have the records as to who send it in?
Apple is just wasting their time with Samsung while the rest of Android is growing stronger by the day. Apples best strategy to penetrate India was to bring the 4 year old iPhone out of retirement and price it at a ridiculous amount for a third world country. That should tell you something about Apple right there.
To avoid retaliation via lawsuits, or cause other problems between companies, just for challenging a patent.
I believe that the party wishing to remain anonymous must retain a patent agent to file the challenge. The agent is known. Their client is not.
Filing an anonymous request does have some major downsides. For example:
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- Once requested, the anonymous party cannot participate in further discussions about the patent validity.
- Also, there is no way to stop the patent holder from refining their claims to keep the patent valid.
As an aside, I looked up this particular auto-complete patent. The challenge is over 340 pages, listing prior art.
That's my point, how does USPTO prevent such parties from participating further if they don't know who requested it? It's not like they can just block the patent agent. How would that stop the requestor from getting another patent agent?
It seems as if it can be gamed easily. For an example, Samsung notifying the courts that the patents were being questioned and reviewed again, so it could be invalidated, so they should wait for USPTO to finish the re-examination (as a stalling method).
lol.. I'm confused how are Samsung going to claim on the macbook pro? The macbook pro, even in its current unibody form outdates anything from Samsung, am I not right? *_*....
Apple is suing every android manufacturer.It's in there nature!
Then you should be patenting everything that's so obvious cos you could be making a small fortune.![]()