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The system has changed - it's first to the patent office, now, and vast amounts of intellectual property is being legally stolen.
by Nomentatus 9y ago
The system has changed - it's first to the patent office, now, and vast amounts of intellectual property is being legally stolen.
- Nomentatus 9y agoPublication doesn't help unless it's highly publicized, either. Theft is genius now.
- jaredklewis 9y agoYes it is now first to file, but that is only to determine the inventor in the case of multiple independent inventors. As before, it is still illegal to file for a patent you did not invent without the inventor's consent.
- Nomentatus 9y agoYou do have to claim you thought of it on your own, just a lot later, true - but that's trivial to do, and impossible to disprove. For example, it's perfectly okay to patent an idea in use a thousand years ago, nowadays, as long as most people in that field haven't heard of it; thanks to recently truly perverse judicial decisions.