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RE: Patent fun
From: "Andrew Hintz \( Drew \)" <drew () overt org>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:00:15 -0400
In general prior art has to be public: http://www.iusmentis.com/patents/priorart/
You know one thing that would solve all this software patenting nonsense? A database app anyone could submit to, which would store and timestamp any idea you wanted to send it, occasionally submitting hashes to the NY Times or at the bottom of mailing list emails (to verify timestamps). However, this database would not be searchable by the public. This way, companies would spend lots of money to get software patents, and then when they tried to sue someone, that person could hire the EFF (as trustees) to search the database for prior art. The idea here is to make the system self-regulating - to put a negative price pressure on patents, because most patents will get overturned easily based on prior art in the database. -dave
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