Worlds Inc (WDDD)

[LouisDesyjr]

Surprised that CAFC 'overruled' Patent Office

That is one thing that has always bothered me about this whole process. We have a separate Patent Office, staffed by experts in various fields, plus lawyers trained in patent law and such. A person or company has an idea, the lawyers and patent office takes a look at it and everyone agrees that it is patentable and issues a patent.

Then it goes to court, and instead of trying to determine if what the defendant did does or does not infringe on the patent, they can decide 'everyone had a mistake issuing the patent' and invalidate the patent; and everyone is stuck with the results.

One thing that I have noticed from history, and this goes back to colonial times, is that a lot of times the people or company getting a patent usually earn little to nothing from it; it is only the company/person that 'does something' with the patent, whether they are the inventor or not, that profits from the subject of the patent.

I think Worlds big mistake was not 'doing something' with the patent; even something that was a poor product. It would have put them in the market place and maybe blocked everyone else out of it. It seems the inventors of the online stuff got the patent and then made the mistake of thinking companies would license the patent from them and that is how they would make their money. Instead, no one cared there was a patent and just made money off of the idea.

Louis J. Desy Jr.