On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:59:50AM -0700, Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote: > The best "priorart.org" for all industry is "patft.uspto.gov". My view is > that the open source community should file more patent applications. > International treatise requires that all patent applications be published > after being filed for 18 months. Such pre-grant publications will be > searched by the Patent Examiners and will become the most powerful "prior > art" against all late comers. Also, pre-grant publications can be used as a > very good source of open source documentation. (Patent documents published > by the Patent Office do not have copyrights.)
This is, unfortunately, terrible advice. In theory, you would be correct. In practice, the fines for treading on a patent increase substantially if you knew about the patent you were infringing on. As a result, it is not a good idea for a programmer to look at any software patents at all. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't fight for freedom by taking away rights. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
