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That's only a problem if you refuse to do a patent search or to ask.. | 117 comments | Create New Account
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That's only a problem if you refuse to do a patent search or to ask..
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 12 2013 @ 02:44 PM EDT

The inventor did not list any material of mine in the patent.
Nor did the inventor list any of my sources in the patent.
Nor did the inventor list of the sources of my sources, in the patent.

If it comes down to a lawsuit, I'm going to say that the patent was filed in bad faith, failing to disclose all of the relevant prior art. I'm not sure if I'll start with the material from 1943, 1929, or the sixteenth century.

This is over and above the fact that the "invention" is software, and software is mathematics.
On second thoughts, I can dispense with the "software is mathematics" argument, and say that the description is merely applied mathematics, but unlike the rubber cure patent, there is nothing novel in the application of that math, citing a paper from 1898 as the genesis of the invention. (Nineteenth century, for those who might think the date is a typo.)

I still have to figure out a way to eliminate the other six patents that were issued after 1980, that individually and collectively claim to cover the use of a computer in every aspect of the field. I hoping that the patents issued between 1950 and 1980, that cover the entire field of endevour, and include essentially the same claims, will suffice as "prior art", as they describe the exact same non-invention.

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