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Consider a Spherical Patent
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Consider a Spherical Patent

by Joseph E. Gortych
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
267 pages
10h 39m
English
CRC Press
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Consider a Spherical Patent: IP and Patenting in Technology Business
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as rigorous as most people assume it is. As a consequence, it is easy for a technology
business to remain blissfully unaware of the fact that the patents its high-entropy
patenting system is generating are shoddy to the point of being useless.
Because patenting systems are complex, they are subject to the functional inde-
terminacy theorem of complex systems, which states:
In complex systems, malfunction and even total nonfunction
maynot be detectable for long periods of time, if ever (Gall 1975).
Most complaints about patents seem to come from those who yearn for the pat-
enti ...
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ISBN: 9781439888063