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Re: Patents, schmatents (was: hi)

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• Subject: Re: Patents, schmatents (was: hi)
• From: "Scott Parnell" <scottp12@r...>
• Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 08:57:03 -0500
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Anyone remember BountyQuest?
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2003/bountyquest_1003.html

Scott

Bob Wyman <bob@w...> wrote:

> 2. Virtually no one takes advantage of the 60 day window after
> a patent application is published to challenge the patent by
> submitting prior art. If we were rational, what we'd have is people
> posting notes about suspect new patent applications the moment they
> are published and then discussion of prior art on lists like this one.
> (Immediately, hundreds of "ignorance is bliss" types said: "Oh, No!".)
> Nonetheless, the public review period is there but is virtually
> ignored.

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