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CA makes a patent pledge

CA makes a patent pledge

Posted Sep 7, 2005 22:42 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: CA makes a patent pledge by xtifr
Parent article: CA makes a patent pledge

Well, you can have your patent revoked if you intentionally don't enforce it for ages and then suddenly change your tactics.

Mind you, this is hardly ever enforced: the only case I can think of is someone who kept his patents pending by submitting constant paltry amendments for literally decades, then his heirs (!) started enforcing them, and lost them.

But it has to be *really* excessive.


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