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No, the way to protect yourself is to disclose anything you don't want to patent, but don't want patented against yourself. IBM had a great system for several
by tacon 8y ago
No, the way to protect yourself is to disclose anything you don't want to patent, but don't want patented against yourself. IBM had a great system for several decades[0]:
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Technical_Disclosure_Bulletin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Technical_Disclosure_Bulle...
- mcbits 8y agoThat establishes prior art for X, but X+2 would still potentially infringe on X+1 and they'd have no leverage for negotiating a license. Except they're still one of the biggest patent spammers, so they probably do have leverage in the portfolio somewhere.