Ken Foskey wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 12:01, ksaenz wrote:
> > I guess now it's upto the opensource community to register patents for
> > all new technologies they will develop to stop M$, $CO and others in
> > cheating the public. :)
>
> It is actually expensive to register a patent. It is no longer to
> support the innovator. There was a thread on this in
> http://yro.slashdot.org and there was some other stuff about appealing a
> patent. US $9,000 to get your appeal even reviewed.
I suspect that most of these so called patents might just be rendered
invalid by "prior publication".
Didn't the US Patent Office grant a patent for the wheel recently (last
year)? which is clearly unpatentable.
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