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You can have all the prior art you want and still end up in court, having to make your case, because you're not the one who got the patent. For what it's worth,
by puzzle 9y ago
You can have all the prior art you want and still end up in court, having to make your case, because you're not the one who got the patent. For what it's worth, and slightly related, there are design mocks on the chromium site that didn't get implemented and always looked like deliberate prior art to me, so I suspect the idea is not new to the lawyers in Mountain View.
We don't know what's the rationale here. For all we know, Google might even be OK if the patent is not granted to them, as long as it isn't to anyone else, either.
The radio silence is to be expected when lawyercats are involved, unfortunately.
[Ex-Google employee, not a lawyer, etc.]
- rhino369 9y agoGetting a patent doesn't mean the patent office doesn't give someone else a patent that more or less covers the same thing.
- puzzle 9y agoHah. Sadly true, but you'll probably agree that it's less likely.
- rhino369 9y agoMaybe, all the examiner records I've seen are definitely biased towards patent prior art rather than published works. But I'm not sure it's worth the expense of patenting all that work. But every single major IEEE, ETSI, IETF, etc. standard ends up with 10 different companies getting patents on exactly the same shit.