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Not just timing issues, but rules
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 03:58 PM EDT
Now the only problem left are the Patent Lawyers that love to play word games in order to get a patent validated where the invention is clearly non-patentable for one reason or another.
Simples: insist that the USPTO follows it's OWN guidelines when it comes to the specification describing how to make the invention.

If the description is so obfuscated (by word games) so that it isn't clear or is not specified in exact terms, then the patent should not be validated.

<dreaming>it ought to be invalidated with prejudice and published into the public domain (de-obfuscated and original) as of when the patent application was filed to act as prior art</dreaming>

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Not just timing issues, but rules
Authored by: rcsteiner on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 05:39 PM EDT
The internet is also relatively new in terms of software development. The first
few decades of development will probably not be recorded there are all, and I
suspect the vast majority of current software development is also not recorded
there.

Making the internet available is a common sense thing, and will increase the
resources available to the USPTO, but it won't solve the problem inherent in
software.

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-Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.

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