23 Jan
2007
23 Jan
'07
7:56 p.m.
"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.
Recent conversations with an engineer who works for lawyers finding
"prior art" would indicate there is some flaw in this comment.
They're certainly paying him regularly to find it, so it must have
some value in fighting patents.
(and I suspect that sort of thing causes some of the "does anyone have
a copy of frozzbozz version 2.0 disk + manual" traffic on this list)
-brad