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Too expensive to oppose (Score:2)

by TeeJay (2309) on 2005.07.11 8:31 (#41780) Homepage Journal

The major problem with the UKPO and EPO allowing through dodgy patents, is that it isn't one or two it is tens of thousands.

Baring in mind it is a lot harder for the same piece of code to be prior art than infringing, and the legal costs involved these timebombs just accumulate silently and unchallenged.

Worse still the patent offices refuse to clean up their own mess and expect other people to go to court to do what the patent office should have done in the first place.

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