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He would be able to patent all curved mirrors, just his particular implementation and design. He may have an optimal design that certainly would deserve patent
by mbreese 14y ago
He would be able to patent all curved mirrors, just his particular implementation and design. He may have an optimal design that certainly would deserve patent protection.
The question that he has to worry about with the patents is whether or not his 2008 paper was published before or after the non-US patents were applied for. If I'm not mistaken, the US has a one year grace period between public display (publishing an academic paper) and filing for a patent. Whereas Europe et al. do not have a grace period.
- pwg 14y agoIf you lookup the patent on the USPTO's system: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8180606.PN.&OS=PN/8180606&RS=PN/8180606 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec... You will find that the ultimate filing date is Feb. 2007, and that multiple publications by Dr. Hicks were cited in the "Other References" area.