RE: Patent fun

["Andrew Hintz \( Drew \)" <drew () overt org>]

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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