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So what if I remake it before he patents it? Is my implementation then prior art? If you're right, the patent system is yet again more broken then I thought.
by bajsejohannes 15y ago
So what if I remake it before he patents it? Is my implementation then prior art?
If you're right, the patent system is yet again more broken then I thought.
- prewett 15y agoNo, he has 1 year from public disclosure to file for a patent (in the US, as of 2006 when I took my IP law class [IANAL, btw]). You could not file for a patent because his public disclosure would count as prior art for you, unless you could prove that you had the idea before his publication.