For the last couple of decades, USPTO has been handing out patents and trademarks on anything that pays them. I had a business for years, based on a culinary technique that’s been around for 150 years, and somehow some guy got a patent on it. It would literally be like getting a patent on scrambled eggs, or the club sandwich, it’s ridiculous.
Every now and then, the guy contacts me and demands $80K a month for a license, and I always tell him to go fuck himself. He always threatens to sue, but I already know of one case he’s lost, and I know he’s just bluffing. If he goes to court, he’ll just be spending a bunch of money to lose the case, lose his patent, and pay my legal bills.
For the last couple of decades, USPTO has been handing out patents and trademarks on anything that pays them. I had a business for years, based on a culinary technique that’s been around for 150 years, and somehow some guy got a patent on it. It would literally be like getting a patent on scrambled eggs, or the club sandwich, it’s ridiculous.
Every now and then, the guy contacts me and demands $80K a month for a license, and I always tell him to go fuck himself. He always threatens to sue, but I already know of one case he’s lost, and I know he’s just bluffing. If he goes to court, he’ll just be spending a bunch of money to lose the case, lose his patent, and pay my legal bills.