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Comment World domination through bogus patents (Score 2, Informative) 650

I propose an IPR-based world domination plan:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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