{"id":7623,"date":"2013-07-24T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T17:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7623"},"modified":"2013-07-24T12:54:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T17:54:48","slug":"victory-lap-for-ask-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/24\/victory-lap-for-ask-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory Lap for Ask Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2013\/07\/22.html\">Joel Spolsky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2013\/07\/22.html\"><p>The America Invents Act changed the law to allow the public to submit examples of prior art while a patent application is being examined. And that&rsquo;s why the USPTO asked us to set up <a href=\"http:\/\/askpatents.com\/\">Ask Patents<\/a>, a Stack Exchange site where software developers like you can submit examples of prior art to stop crappy software patents even before they&rsquo;re issued.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Micah showed me a document from the USPTO confirming that they had rejected the patent application, and the rejection relied very heavily on the document I found. This was, in fact, the first &ldquo;confirmed kill&rdquo; of Ask Patents, and it was really surprisingly easy. I didn&rsquo;t have to do the hard work of studying everything in the patent application and carefully proving that it was all prior art: the examiner did that for me.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>My dream is that when big companies hear about how friggin&rsquo; easy it is to block a patent application, they&rsquo;ll use Ask Patents to start messing with their competitors. How cool would it be if Apple, Samsung, Oracle and Google got into a Mexican Standoff on Ask Patents? If each of those companies had three or four engineers dedicating a few hours every day to picking off their competitors&rsquo; applications, the number of granted patents to those companies would grind to a halt.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Spolsky: The America Invents Act changed the law to allow the public to submit examples of prior art while a patent application is being examined. And that&rsquo;s why the USPTO asked us to set up Ask Patents, a Stack Exchange site where software developers like you can submit examples of prior art to stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[209,40],"class_list":["post-7623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-legal","tag-patents"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}