jonathon wrote:
> Make the people applying for a patent _prove_ that their
> patent is both unobvious, and not based upon prior art.
>   

The problem with that, is it's extremely difficult to prove a negative. 
For example, to prove it's not based on prior art, you'd have to know
*ALL* prior art.


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