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rough notes from

Eduardo Gutentag

Extreme IPR

No definition of "Reasonable" so we end up in WWACS = What Would a Court Say?

Silly patents - the gerbil shirt. 6,960,975 for the warp drive.

patents on style sheets, on schemas. Busiones methods = concatenation of two obvious things can be a business method. System encourages the maximum number of filings (funded by filing fees). Prior art should be cited and investigated, but in practice ....

Whatever happens in the US affects the rest of the world, by influence and by imitation. So the worldshould care about the US Patent system.