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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 07:03 AM EDT |
That's the concept of "defensive patents" there.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 11:11 AM EDT |
Sorry, but this will sound like a real dumb question, and I apologize in
advance:
Were there ANY markings in the code/documentation that Google supposedly
mis-used that said "Patent Pending" or "Patent #nnnnnnnn" or
whatever?
As a kid, I used to see stuff all the time, particularly on cleaning and other
products used around the house, the famous "Patent Pending by Johnson
Wax", knowing that it used to take months for the USPTO to examine an
application.
ISTR that the phrase "Patent Pending" meant that the invention was
tentatively protected until final action was taken on the application
but that the applicant HAD to CLEARLY state that it was "Patent
Pending".
Obviously, IANAL; I'm a retired software QC engineer who can read source
code, even if I don't understand much of it. I know that Patent Laws have
been changing dramatically over the past 20 years or so, but I don't
know exactly what the requirements for applicants and users are now.
Can someone elucidate it for me, assuming rashly that it can be made clearer?
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