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Comment Re:What a beautiful word (Score 1) 71

I was working with prototype telephone line equipment with a new solid state (plus inductor) ringing generator. The ringing generator chips tended to explosively self destruct, spalling and tossing a piece of the chip package. Proper documentation of test results being essential, I put pieces of masking tape on the lab floor where each landed, annotated with the date and time.

Comment Re:So this is really just clickbait (Score 1) 72

Patents cost money to draft and file. Unless the company has inside patent counsel or patent agent, they will need to pay outside counsel to draft it and answer through the examination. I had one proposal rejected by inside counsel because "we don't do phase locked loop patents".

One set of motivations for patents of broad scope, is to stake a claim for possible future use, to have something to trade around standards bodies, or to offer as value to settle infringement actions against some other patent.

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