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If you need secret sauce to get things to work, you can have the patent invalidated.
by c_o_n_v_e_x 4y ago
If you need secret sauce to get things to work, you can have the patent invalidated.
- JPLeRouzic 4y agoTell that to the pharmaceutical industry. Many pharmaceutical patents can't be reproduced without insider knowledge as discovered companies that entered the "generic" business. https://dlj.law.duke.edu/article/patent-laws-reproducibility-paradox-sherkow-vol66-iss4/ https://dlj.law.duke.edu/article/patent-laws-reproducibility...
- AlbertCory 4y agoYou're very wrong about that. What you're talking about is called a 112 rejection. Section 112 has to do with "written description," "enablement," and "best mode." Getting a patent invalidated after it's issued can't be done on 112 grounds. It's done based on anticipation and obviousness (prior art, basically).
- c_o_n_v_e_x 4y agoI was referring to how things work in my non-US locale, unclear patent specifications are grounds for having a patent revoked.
- AlbertCory 4y agoWhich country is that?
- c_o_n_v_e_x 4y agoSingapore
- AlbertCory 4y agoOK. I don't know how common it is to have a Singaporean patent.