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Authored by: mcinsand on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 01:12 PM EDT |
As I remember it, USPTO examiners are only allowed to search patent databases.
This leads me to another thing, though, that disturbs me about some of these
patents. The attorneys I have worked with when filing for patents have always
stressed to me that I have to meet certain requirements or risk perjury charges:
I have to be giving my best known examples, documenting them completely, and
believe in the invention's novelty as a person skilled in the art. Granted,
proving what someone actually believes can be tough. However, in looking over
what Apple and MS have been terrorizing the industry with lately, proof doesn't
look so difficult...especially if these people had more than a passing awareness
of the recent and past state of software.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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