Granted just last year. It kind of boggles the mind that the USPTO grants patents on this sort of stuff. It's almost as if they check to see that you've properly followed the process, if you're well-off, grant on the spot- if you're not they flip a coin and based on that, go looking for irrelevant things to "invalidate" your patent application (At least that's been my experience from the other end of that equation...)
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Granted just last year. It kind of boggles the mind that the USPTO grants patents on this sort of stuff. It's almost as if they check to see that you've properly followed the process, if you're well-off, grant on the spot- if you're not they flip a coin and based on that, go looking for irrelevant things to "invalidate" your patent application (At least that's been my experience from the other end of that equation...)Tags: None
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nanonyme, look up "Open Invention Network". This group does exactly what you mentioned.Last edited by SlickMcRunfast; 13 October 2009, 02:10 AM.
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