>Swiss company develops a product
>uses a quick release connector that is already well known in a different industry and therefore doesn't feel the need to patent it
>exhibits said product with its connector in a public trade fair
>an American company's engineer visits said fair, takes pictures and uses the same connection design in their own product
>The American company patents said design
>years later the American company threatens the Swiss company and its customers with legal action for violating their patent
Why is the American legal system like this? Why do American companies act like this?

To me this is really bizarre, in Finland patents are for protecting new inventions, not for stealing already existing inventions from others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjS3TNBgi_o

>>212376805 (OP)
America is a Judaised shithole, hence the evil, Jewish business practices in America

I thought you couldn't patent things if previous art or whatever it's called of it existed

>>212376939
If it doesn't have a patent, you can patent it.

>>212376805 (OP)
it's a doggy dog world

>>212376939
That's how it's supposed to work
>>212376967
This is how it often works in practice despite the law clearly stating that any prior art invalidates the patent.

America not beating the "might makes right" allegations

>>212376805 (OP)
jews

>>212376939
Patent offices approve obviously invalid patents all the time. It shouldn't hold in court if challenged, but challenging a patent is expensive and takes years.

Patents are the kikest things known to man.
It violates the very principles civilization was built on.

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is the life of an american businessman that of a whore in saudi arabia?

>>212376859
this
ALL americans are just fresh meat and slave tier caste for the Jewish elites. They sell their own blood to pay tribute to their Jewish elites and their henchmen, and their lifes when the Jews are in danger.
what a life, couldnt imagine it myself

>>212380505
I hope you thank your ancestors everyday that they fought to prevent such a horrible fate as pic related befalling your country.

the idea of patents is mindbogglingly retarded.
no wonder the chinese don't respect them

>>212376805 (OP)
Because fucking jews

>>212376805 (OP)
Americans are evil pieces of shit

>>212376805 (OP)
couldn't they just get the lawsuit instantly dismissed and the patent voided simply by showing they already were using this before a patent was ever filled?

>>212376805 (OP)
>>212376939
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>>212382148
this might surprise you but this is actually by design, since the INCEPTION of the american patent office.

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison designed the first patent act (the third law ever passed in the USA) to be a strong recruiting tool for bringing engineers and inventors into the newly formed country. basically, if you invent something and don't patent it within a year of invention in the USA, it will be IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN for anyone to use. There's a strong incentive for inventors anywhere in the world to patent in the USA or they risk losing their right to the invention!

nowadays its easy to file a US patent from abroad through the PCT and foreign filing system but this aspect of american patent law remains.

Of course, if this patent was ever litigated it could easily be struck down in a court, but patent and IP litigation cases are THE MOST expensive types of cases to litigate, so in reality what will happen is this american company will just bully others into paying them license fees like every other patent troll until the patent expires.


>>212382148
agreed. the average patent issued has negative value, but there are a few patents every year worth maybe hundreds of millions to billions of dollars.

mostly for drugs (like mounjaro) and microchip designs (like ARM)
the patent system is swamped with retarded incremental "inventions" submitted by bigcorps to secure promotions for middle managers

>>212382573
Is it possible to directly "patent" something in the public domain to avoid a retard usurping it for himself in less than a year then suing you?

>>212376967
no, by law there can't be "prior art" when you try to patent something. i.e. if someone else is already doing it you can't patent it.

that's the theory, anyway. in reality there's a whole species of lawyer whose job is to find loopholes and exceptions to patent really obvious shit like "rectangular phone" and whatnot.