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RE:  hi
Claude L Bullard wrote:
> Unfortunately, it isn't illegal and that is 
> all that will stop some businessmen.
	You are wrong if this is in response to the question: "Is
knowingly filing a patent application for which there is prior art
'business'?" At least, you are wrong according to use law.
	Given the special relationship between the patent examiner and
the applicant for a patent, US law requires that the inventor, and his
agents, etc. exercise a "duty of candor". This requires them to notify
the examiner of any and all prior art, etc. that the examiner might
find material. Note: This is much broader than requiring the inventor
only disclose things that would definitively influence the examiner.
If you can prove that an inventor did not reveal prior art, even if
that prior art could not be said to definitively invalidate the
patent, then you can get the patent overturned based on that alone.
	Inventors are not allowed to pull the wool over the examiner's
eyes. If they can be caught doing so, they get punished.

		bob wyman


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