On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:50 PM, David Hobby<hob...@newpaltz.edu> wrote:

> I doubt that "would otherwise have been kept secret"
> is going to be a useful criterion for when a patent
> should be granted.  How do you propose to tell when
> that's the case?

Easily, when you look at the reverse: when would it obviously NOT be
kept secret. You gave one example. Unfortunately, there are many in
the patent system.

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