Comment World domination through bogus patents (Score 2, Informative) 650
I propose an IPR-based world domination plan:
- Relax your own restrictions for patents and other IPR, start accepting any bogus patent application, business model patent application, etc in your own country. Build up a large amount of bogus IPRs for your country with your lax policy.
- Push other countries hard (through WIPO and other means) into tightening their IPR protection laws while making sure they still accept your lax IPR, too.
- Profit! This would provide a great 20 to 30 year plan for dominating the global IPR market for the country who does this first...
Oh wait! the USA started implementing this plan already a decade ago...
Here is one example of what actually does happen when this plan is in action: When someone tries to apply for a real, innovative, detailed patent in another country, say EU for example, it will be rejected by the EU patent office because of an existing over-broad US "patent" which "covers everything". Perhaps patents from overly lax countries should be considered less valid by default?
P.S. Here's my prior art contribution for this bogus patent: IKI.FI, a non-profit society, has been doing since 1995 what they claim to have invented in 1999. I wrote a page about this at http://www.iki.fi/iki/faq/boguspatent6671714.html so it's easy to find when googling with the patent number.