23 Jan
2007
23 Jan
'07
5:42 p.m.
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 09:23, Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
"Prior Art" has no standing anymore. Its
now, who gets there first
with the patent. Been that way for about 5 years now (maybe longer)
when they changed the law.
Sorry, not true. A large portion of my business (and Sellam's) is based on the
use of prior art in patent litigation suits. I love killing patents with
prior art :-)
Lyle
KF6CGI
On 1/23/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
wrote:
> On 23 Jan 2007 at 13:33, Tore Sinding Bekkedal wrote:
> > I was lazily browsing the 'web when I came across this one - apparently
> > a project to create a storage medium with extremely long life times.
> >
> > http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/300636_msftimmortal22.html
>
> Microsoft is trying to patent the gold-plated disc attached to
> Voyager 30 years ago? I hope they cite it as "prior art"!
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
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