Storyteller01
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Ranger REG said:
Agreed, but I'm guessing Wizkids and WotC are paying their lawyers.
What's this I hear about Wizards suing WizKids??
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Agreed, but I'm guessing Wizkids and WotC are paying their lawyers.
Ranger REG
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Smart of their lawyers to demand payment.Storyteller01 said:
Steel_Wind
Legend
Clients who conceive their valuable commercial interests and shareholders' wealth is enriched by millions - or tens of millions of dollars by a patent ordinarily engage the most skilled professionals they can to protect that wealth or business advantage.
And as well they should.
This suggestion that it is lawyers who have much to do with the expansion and prosecution of patents is the USA is nonsense. The current environment towards patents in the USA is out of lockstep with the entirety of the industrialized world, who think little of software patents and less still of specious patents over "business methods". That legislative trend is entirely the product of lobbyists in Washington who are paid for by large corporate interests. These patents are not recognized in the rest of the industrialized world.
And yet - if you want your business to be able to export goods and services to the USA - that means the patent can be enforced outside of the USA for all practical purposes. This result is quite offensive to the sensibilities of most other nations - but there appears little that can be done about it. (In grade school we called it being a bully.)
If you conceive this legislative trend regarding the expansion of patents to be blameworthy activity - kindly assign the blame where it reasonably lies: Congress and the large corporate interests and PACs who donate to its members (of whatever political stripe - this is not a Red/Blue issue).
I've had, however, just about enough smarmy and quite ill-informed comments directed towards lawyers at every drop of a hat.
That would be for the very good reason that I am one.
And as well they should.
This suggestion that it is lawyers who have much to do with the expansion and prosecution of patents is the USA is nonsense. The current environment towards patents in the USA is out of lockstep with the entirety of the industrialized world, who think little of software patents and less still of specious patents over "business methods". That legislative trend is entirely the product of lobbyists in Washington who are paid for by large corporate interests. These patents are not recognized in the rest of the industrialized world.
And yet - if you want your business to be able to export goods and services to the USA - that means the patent can be enforced outside of the USA for all practical purposes. This result is quite offensive to the sensibilities of most other nations - but there appears little that can be done about it. (In grade school we called it being a bully.)
If you conceive this legislative trend regarding the expansion of patents to be blameworthy activity - kindly assign the blame where it reasonably lies: Congress and the large corporate interests and PACs who donate to its members (of whatever political stripe - this is not a Red/Blue issue).
I've had, however, just about enough smarmy and quite ill-informed comments directed towards lawyers at every drop of a hat.
That would be for the very good reason that I am one.
Ranger REG
Explorer
Heh. A joke and a punchline rolled in one.JustKim said:
Kidding aside. Steel_Wind is right. If you don't like it, change the law.
Storyteller01
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Steel_Wind said:
Wasn't out to bash lawyers. I know one myself, a prosecutor (butchered spelling?) who takes Aikido. I swear the guy took his stress out on me on the mat...
Steel_Wind said:
Folks, please step away from the politics.
Discuss the known or assumed facts of the case, and repercussions of the possible outcomes on the market, and so on. But do not get into the the making of the policies and laws. That's not appropriate for these boards. Thank you. If you've got a question about this, feel free to e-mail one of the mods to discuss it.
for the armchair patent litigators out there
you can find what WotC said to get this patent allowed and what was said against it here by searching the patent number:
http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair
and you might want to consider this recent US Supreme Court decision as well in your analysis:
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/06pdf/04-1350.pdf
you can find what WotC said to get this patent allowed and what was said against it here by searching the patent number:
http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair
and you might want to consider this recent US Supreme Court decision as well in your analysis:
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/06pdf/04-1350.pdf
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