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Re: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Mal ware Becoming Impo ssible
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:08:26 -0400
On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:28:34 EDT, Blanchard_Michael () emc com said:
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?
Once upon a time, the science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke didn't get the patent on the concept of a geosynchronous communications satellite because he had mentioned it in a short story before patenting it. Of course, back then, they still had requirements about novelty of ideas and lack of prior art. These days, the fact that it's an obvious idea to any journeyman practitioner in the field, and being done in production for 10 years by major companies, isn't a show-stopper. Remember guys - the people who are examining computer-related patents currently are the guys who ended up at the USPTO because they couldn't get a decent job even at the peak of the dot-com bubble.....
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