07-26-2003, 09:45 AM
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So Fucking Banned
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: chandler, az
Posts: 1,052
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Originally posted by Flow
Having read the article, it is ever clearer that the way to beat this is to find some form of prior art. Having read this tread about the subject:
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=156828
it can be many form.....
What What Can Be Used As Prior Art For Invalidating A Patent?
In essence, any publication, in any language, located anywhere in the world is valid prior art for invalidating a U.S. Patent. One copy of a thesis, written in the Chinese language and stored on a dusty shelf of the Beijing University Library will invalidate any and all U.S. patents that were filed one year after that thesis was published and that claims as an invention ANY of the subject matter that was disclosed in that thesis.
A publication can be, among other things: a thesis, a PHD dissertation, a journal article, a text book, a newspaper article, a patent, a home work assignment, a white paper, written materials handed out during a presentation, a product, or a product brochure.
A publication is NOT: your recollection of what someone once said, someone's recollection of what they themselves once said, a trade secret, or a confidential company memo. The upshot is that prior art must be publicly available, and it must be printed (or a physical object
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why doens't some one just pay some poor country 10,000$ to magically find their text books and written materials and all kinds of other shit about streaming video's? would a streaming video on a movie work? i bet there's alot of movies about some kind of future in space that show the holigram in the middle of the space ship.. that's streaming video  |
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