Re: Patent fun

[dave <dave () immunitysec com>]

This is a really good point. It doesn't necessarally have to be 
searchable. It can be expensive. For example, the EFF could charge 50 
dollars per minute to a 28.8 modem connection that allows consecutive 
viewings of pages where the data was listed. This would make it "non 
searchable" by the public, but still prior art when the EFF needs it, 
since it is publicly accessible.

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Dave Aitel
Immunity, Inc.


Andrew Hintz ( Drew ) wrote:

> In general prior art has to be public:
> http://www.iusmentis.com/patents/priorart/
>
>  
>
> > You know one thing that would solve all this software patenting 
> > nonsense? A database app anyone could submit to, which would 
> > store and 
> > timestamp any idea you wanted to send it, occasionally 
> > submitting hashes 
> > to the NY Times or at the bottom of mailing list emails (to verify 
> > timestamps). However, this database would not be searchable by the 
> > public. This way, companies would spend lots of money to get software 
> > patents, and then when they tried to sue someone, that person 
> > could hire 
> > the EFF (as trustees) to search the database for prior art. The idea 
> > here is to make the system self-regulating -  to put a negative price 
> > pressure on patents, because most patents will get overturned easily 
> > based on prior art in the database.
> >
> > -dave
> >    
>
>  


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