On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Landon Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > Just when I was hoping we might see some patent law reform, I heard this > story on proposed changes to the patent system: > > > > http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/10/patent_law/ > > > > It would award patents to the first entity to file a patent application, not > the entity to first use a patented idea. Would this basically abolish “prior > art”?
No that's how the EU (and I think the rest of the world) does patents, and we still have prior art. It saves a lot of law suits since first to file is well documented by the government as opposed to having to trust someones word for when they thought of the idea. Ian _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
