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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6427610" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>given the expense ($10K is common), anybody submitting to the process is likely certain of the value. In a large corporation, the expense is sort of higher. Patentable ideas are submitted to an authority group that reviews entries and decides what is worth pursuing. Those people cost money, as they are usually senior engineers/lawyers (one of my old co-workers joined that group and eventually became an lawyer through it). From there, the idea is submitted to a lawyer who drafts up a patent submission, which also gets reviewed with the originator. That lawyer costs time, plus the time during their review/editing stage. Then there's the sending to the USPTO. That costs money, plus about 5 years waiting for it to be approved.</p><p></p><p>Generally, you don't go through the process except on your best ideas that you can capitalize on. Value is therefore inherent in the process usually (except for patent trolls, those guys suck).</p><p></p><p>I can't speak to the court case TomB mentioned, but one semantic thing to be wary of is that a programmer will refer to their bit of code as "the algorithm" which in laymans terms really means the process and NOT usually specifically referring to a mathematical formula.</p><p></p><p>This may be something that muddies up cases when mixing legal speak with technical jargon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6427610, member: 8835"] given the expense ($10K is common), anybody submitting to the process is likely certain of the value. In a large corporation, the expense is sort of higher. Patentable ideas are submitted to an authority group that reviews entries and decides what is worth pursuing. Those people cost money, as they are usually senior engineers/lawyers (one of my old co-workers joined that group and eventually became an lawyer through it). From there, the idea is submitted to a lawyer who drafts up a patent submission, which also gets reviewed with the originator. That lawyer costs time, plus the time during their review/editing stage. Then there's the sending to the USPTO. That costs money, plus about 5 years waiting for it to be approved. Generally, you don't go through the process except on your best ideas that you can capitalize on. Value is therefore inherent in the process usually (except for patent trolls, those guys suck). I can't speak to the court case TomB mentioned, but one semantic thing to be wary of is that a programmer will refer to their bit of code as "the algorithm" which in laymans terms really means the process and NOT usually specifically referring to a mathematical formula. This may be something that muddies up cases when mixing legal speak with technical jargon. [/QUOTE]
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