[Patents] How to prevent a patent

[Pierre Breese pb@breese.fr]

> As Greg told us, they may not be of much use as proofs, unless stored in
> some village library in paper form with a time stamp.

No. All sorts of proofs are taken in account by EPO. Many search reports I
recently considered comprises web publications.
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> If you publish knowledge, then it is no longer your property.  If you dont
> want to dissipate it, then dont publish it.  The patent system allows
> people to publish and own knowledge at the same time,
More precisely : you diffuse the knowledge that because available for every 
one,
but you become, until the expiration of the patent, the owner of the 
COMMERCIAL
exploitation rights of the claimed invention, limited on the claimed technical
characteristics.

> unnatural exception that can only be justified where it promotes progress.
I agree : This is the proposal of patent system.

> For many industries, business secret and some other strategies provide
> enough of an incentive for innovation, so that there is no need to impose
> renunciation of natural rights on everybody.

I agree : Secret, dissemination of technical results, patenting of innovations
are differents strategies. Nobody has to impose one of them to every body.

Bien cordialement

Pierre BREESE


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