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It's how patent trolls work. They patent a rough idea on how something might possibly work, then sue the cr@p out of anyone who does something that even slightly resembles that rough idea.
Just look at the verbiage: "can automatically modify or destroy one or more targets in the blood that have an adverse health effect".
It's a monstrous patent for technology that does not, and cannot yet, exist, which can only be used to steal funds from people who could actually make something like that work.
I've always been largely in favour of the "If you can't provide empirical proof that it works, you can't have a patent for it" concept, but, given what has been going on over the last few years, I've begun to see it as a necessity.
[edited for a tpyo]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 17-Mar-15 16:21pm.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: If you can't provide empirical proof that it works, you can't have a patent for it
Agreed. We need to go back to the days that the patent process required 2 things: 1 - the application, 2 - a fully working demo.
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Yes, thank you, that all makes good sense.
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No empirical proof that robotniks work => no patent.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In my naiveté I thought that's how it was supposed to work - I hadn't realized that dreams could now be patented.
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Dreams of getting rich off other people's work are very strong in some.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It used to be that to file a patent, you had to have at least a working prototype. Seems like I could patent warp drive technology now, if I wanted to.
Marc
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Some of the suggestions offered, to help the inflicted, seem like they wouldn't work because it would still require some level of effort from the inflicted person.
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Oh, bite me. 
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I'll ignore that simply because you're a key stakeholder.
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These puns are getting a bit wooden
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Can you please help me understand what this thread is all about? 
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It's the diagnosis of the CodeProject Q&A Forum.. 
[People asking questions without having switched on their brain before = Help Vampires]
Recursion: see Recursion.
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I got that - Did you get that I was being facetious? 
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No, you caught me off guard - outside the Q&A forum some filters are suspended in order to recover 
Recursion: see Recursion.
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It's about those rissoles in Q&A, who think they're so smart because they answer questions.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You only need to be smarter than the inquirer, give it a try 
Recursion: see Recursion.
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Ah, but you can never really tell how smart someone is.
I can run faster than he; that's what really counts.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wow. That is one of the best uses of words that I've seen in a long time.
Extreme kudos to the inventor.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Haha. In fact, I've felt I have been afflicted like these poor souls, a few times in the last ten days.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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