|
Authored by: cricketjeff on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 10:38 AM EDT |
As an "inventor" who had patents under the US "first to
invent" regime I would like to say it was always completely bogus. For most
inventions there is no single day of invention, you get a patent not simply on
an idea but on reducing that invention to practicality.
You then prove the invention date from signed pages in your lab notebook, and
every scientist, engineer and technician religiously keeps their lab notes up to
date, don't they?
Exactly several times a year a labhead signs dozens of pages (including loads of
blank ones) unread and the world moves on. The only provable, reliable dates are
date of first disclosure and date of first filing, therefore those are the dates
that make sense on a legal document.
---
There is nothing in life that doesn't look better after a good cup of tea.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
|
|
|