Is such obscurity is the criteria for evaluating the value of a good patent, then Joe Papp produced a world class patent of the first rank.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Mike Carrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > His patent disclosers are descriptive of many possible strategies and >> ingredients [to catch any copiers] while concealing in plain sight the >> optimum path which s disclosed to licensees. > > > Why would he intentionally make it hard for people to work out how to > build the devices described in his patents? My understanding is that if > people skilled in the art cannot do it, he risks losing the patent. If > they can replicate and wish to use the procedure or device in something > that they wish to sell, they must negotiate a license. > > Eric > >
