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Re: A thought about patents

2000-04-06 03:00:01
Check with the lawyers, but I think that you will find that this 
is strictly a US view of patents. In every other country any public 
disclosure anywhere immediately voids the right to patent. Even 
NDA disclosure can be tricky, because an offer for sale counts 
as a disclosure.

Stewart

Doug Royer wrote:

"David L. Nicol" wrote:

After publishing your idea somewhere, for public critique, you have
a year to file your patent application.  After that it becomes a
public prior art.

Am I wrong?

Or if it is a little past a year, and you can show that you
have done your best - you can also get the patent. It's not
a hard set time limit.

-Doug



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