In <[email protected]>, on 01/12/2013
at 10:30 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> said:
>2. Only the inventor can patent something.
That's how it's supposed to work, but ISPTO is sloppy about checking
for prior art.
>a defense against the enforcement of a patent that turns out
>after issuance to be invalid because of prior art).
That's expensive.
--
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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