RE: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Mal ware Becoming Impo ssible

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

Ok, I'm confused, or maybe not...

  So lets say in a publicly archived e-mail list that the patent office
reads every day, I mention an idea for a new and great widget.  Later today
I decide that my idea is truly unique and I want to spend the  money (couple
thousand USD basically) to get a patent for it.  I would be denied that
patent just because I mentioned the idea publicly?  Even though it was
truely my idea, I would still be denied the patent?

  Mike B

Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 
 

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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Nick FitzGerald
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:18 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from
Malware Becoming Impo ssible

Drsolly wrote:

> OK, got it. So, I can't patent it, but anyone else can. Rats.

You could apply for a patent for it and so long as the patent examiner 
did not find your publication, a patent could be granted, but if 
someone else then challenged that patent on the grounds that you, the 
applicant, had previsouly published the idea, I strongly suspect that 
the patent would be revoked much more easily than if someone else had 
filed the application and _you_ challenged their patent.

Yes, it's seriously borked...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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