Fuzzy Patents

Posted by TomRose on January 2, 2009 under Innovation | Be the First to Comment

Many times after reading through patents, it would seem the intellectual property actually rest in the ability of patent submitters to make generally known concepts within an industry seem innovative. This behavior is rather frustrating at best, so I was pleasantly surprised last week as I read articles from Forbes about two initiatives that may reduce some of the noise in the patent pipeline:

Patent Vigilantes

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No opinion on which model will work best, although both are an intriguing start.