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

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 ok, lemme rephrase my question then (are you inferring that the patent office examiners don't read mailing lists?):

I mention an idea for a new and great widget **in some public forum**

Later today I realize 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?


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 


-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 3:19 PM
To: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec)
Cc: nick () virus-l demon co uk; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Mal ware Becoming Impo ssible 

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 14:47:37 EDT, Blanchard_Michael () emc com said:

>   So lets say in a publicly archived e-mail list that the patent office
> reads every day,

That's so contra-factual that the entire remainder isn't worth wading through.

A better starting point: "So let's say that the patent office intentionally
(for some unexplained reason) uses examiners that have no idea of Amazon, eBay,
Google, or anything ever mentioned on Slashdot...."


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