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False. A recent U.S. decision holds that such a disclosure must be well known to practitioners of the art, not just known to a few! Publication is no longer suf
by Nomentatus 8y ago
False. A recent U.S. decision holds that such a disclosure must be well known to practitioners of the art, not just known to a few! Publication is no longer sufficient.
You do have to lie and say you thought of it independently; something impossible to disprove. The number of people who'd lie for big money is... innumerable.
You can patent ideas thousands of years old - if they're not well known to practitioners.
- falcor84 8y agoCould you please link to this decision?
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- bdowling 8y agoYou're right that any publication will not be sufficient. A publication needs to be discoverable by the practitioners of the relevant art. However, it does not need to be well-known to them, nor does it need to be actually known by any of them. It only needs to be reasonably discoverable. As for obtaining a patent by fraud, no comment.