"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.
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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