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<CAE1XxDH39XOyhfMcrHwiJZ3X=tgc4sjalq4dbzmy0mb7okb...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 01/11/2013
at 11:48 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>IBM also publishes a Disclosure Journal, available in libraries
>but not I think by subscription, in which it discloses the details
>of 'inventions' that it does not itself wish to patent in order to
>make it impossible for others to patent them later.
Unfortunately]1], that *doesn't* make it impossible. The patent
examiners routinely fail to notice prior art, and all that publication
does is to make it easier to prevail after expensive litigation. A
defensive patent, while more expensive, is better protection.
[1] Because it means that USPTO is not doing its job.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
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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