In <[email protected]>, on 11/14/2013
at 08:40 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> said:
>Or patents! I notice IBM have quite a few wrt PLO.
Could they be defensive patents? The only really effective way to
prevent someone else from patenting a technique that you're using is
to file first. Unless and until the USPTO gets serious about excluding
things that are obvious to a practitioner or are prior art, I expect
to continue to see a flood of defensive patents, and not just from
IBM.
Note that even if the USPTO rejects a defensive patent as prior art,
it will have served its purpose.
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