2 May
An Automatic Patent Requests Generator: overflooding the Patent Office?
Since really trivial patents get granted (as long as you pay), i was wondering how hard could it be to organize a Distributed Denial of Service Attack on the Patent Office [the Patent Office probably reviews a bit patent requests, eventually accepting all of them since the only funds they received is from granting patents].
The idea: to modify a bit the SCIgen – An Automatic CS Paper Generator (a wonderful GPL-licenced generator of Computer Science papers who created a random paper that got accepted to a conference!) and overflood the Patent Office with automatically generated Patent Requests. I bet that 95% of the (randomly generated) Patent Requests would be accepted. Did I heard “NoSoftwarePatents“?
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Posted by Markus Sandy on 02.05.05 at 5:31 pm
Brilliant!
Posted by Emanuele on 02.05.05 at 5:31 pm
The only limit is the cost for filing a patent: from 10k (US) to 50k (EU) euros each one.
Posted by paolo on 02.05.05 at 5:31 pm
Emanuele, you need to pay just to submit? Damn …