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SubjectRe: Patent
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Seth M. Landsman wrote:

> What a patent attorney friend of mine has said is that if
> you send the filing patent attorney proof that there is prior art,
> the attorney has a duty to notify his client and the PTO of this
> prior art. OF course, take that with whatever grains of salt you
> want.

Even if he doesn't act on the listing of prior art, it would
be a nice indicator to the laywer and company in question that
we have a large stack of prior art evidence that will be handed
to the first party they try to sue over the patent.

Ie: if you start sueing, you're sure to lose the patent. So
please be careful.

Ted's idea of a www.priorart.org would be great too. It
shouldn't be too much trouble to host such a site somewhere
outside of the US (or with the required disclaimers).

regards,

Rik
--
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of people. That is its real strength.


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