In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 12/13/2006
at 07:35 AM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Hum? VLF is patented? I wonder if QuikFetch (I think that was the
>name) would be "prior art".
The problem is that the USPTO only searches its own records, not all
of the available literature. The result is that they do a truly
ghastly job of recognizing prior art in software.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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