RE: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Mal ware Becoming Impo ssible

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 wow, that amazes me that my patent for Widget could be found invalid because I mentioned it in public.   I had no idea 
about that....
  I could certainly understand if I filed a for a patent for Widget and someone else had mentioned it in a public forum 
some time in the past.  But not if I had mentioned it...

  I guess that's why I'm not a patent lawyer :-)  hehe or any other kind of lawyer ;-)

  thanks!
  Mike B


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: Blue Boar [mailto:BlueBoar () thievco com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 3:57 PM
To: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec)
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Mal ware Becoming Impo ssible

Blanchard_Michael () emc com wrote:
>  ok, lemme rephrase my question then (are you inferring that the patent office examiners don't read mailing lists?):
>
> I mention an idea for a new and great widget **in some public forum**

I'd be really surprised if they did, at least on a regular basis.

Instead, I would expect a patent to be issued, he would get 50 companies 
to roll over and pay, before someone decides to actually challenge it. 
THEN their lawyers find the post, and have the patent invalidated.  So 
he will be left with no patent.  A maybe a couple million from the first 
50 companies.

                                                BB

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