Please remember that you cannot patent or copyright an "idea." You can patent a process (which this would be), and you can copyright a written work.
I haven't had a chance to read through the entire patent, however it does appear at first glance, that TMDA would count as published prior art.
-Matthew
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P.S. - Although figuring out a way to patent a wheel would be difficult, most are aware of the US PTO patent (6,368,227) on the swing[1].
1. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,368,227.WKU.&OS=PN/6,368,227&RS=PN/6,368,227 http://pair.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/final/home.pl
Hannu wrote:
I agree with Jason; you cannot patent a wheel. In fact, you cannot
patent anything that is public knowledge. TMDA is published, so it's
idea's cannot be patented, unless the procedure has been started
before the publisment.
I quess there are no problem here :-)
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