Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Patent or not patent a new idea | From | Bryan Henderson <> | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:11:00 -0700 |
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>If your only purpose is to try generate a defensive patent, then just >dumping the idea in the public domain serves the same purpose, probably >better. > >I have a few patents, some of which are defensive. That has not prevented >the USPTO issuing quite a few patents that are in clear violation of mine.
That's not what a defensive patent is. Indeed, patenting something just so someone else can't patent it is ridiculous, because publishing is so much easier.
A defensive patent is one you file so that you can trade rights to it for rights to other patents that you need.
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