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Yet another ridiculous patent -- Internet Testing
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Thursday, February 06 @ 09:19:35 EST
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eptitude writes "I'm sure no one has thought of this before, but Test Central, Inc., a Cleveland-based company announced that it has just been issued patent no. 6,513,042 for "A method of making a tests, assessments, surveys and lesson plans with images and sound files and posting them on-line for potential users." Yet another indication that the USPTO never met an application it didn't approve. Seriously: do they ever reject patent apps?"
 
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Re: Yet another ridiculous patent -- Internet Testing (Score: 1)
by starbuck on Thursday, February 06 @ 11:09:52 EST
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Has anyone done any studies of the economic impact of such lax research into prior art before a patent is granted? Research into the economic effects of allowing business-method patents would be interesting as well.

The USPTO's lax research into prior art before granting a patent has to be having a negative economic impact. It would be interesting to see if that negative impact were greater than the budget allocation of the USPTO.


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