Patent Law

Prosecutor Grift

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

We see it all the time. Inventors who paid tens of thousands of dollars to respectable law firms who took their money and either got them worthless patents, or strung them out with useless applications that even the patent office wouldn't grant. They come to Platinum Patents with a prosecution mess, or tantalized by infringement of their invalid patent, knock on Patent Hawk's door looking for a hookup to contingency. Too late for us to prevent grief and loss. Prosecutors who don't work the beat on the enforcement side of the street know but a fraction of what they need to know. That's most prosecutors. They jostle with the crowd who don't even bother performing adequate prior art searches, and draft claims that defy comprehension. Dime-store prosecutors on the grift are a dime a dozen. It still saddens me to witness every time.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).