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Kügler: Best practises for writing defensive publications

Kügler: Best practises for writing defensive publications

Posted Aug 27, 2012 16:06 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Kügler: Best practises for writing defensive publications by hingo
Parent article: Kügler: Best practises for writing defensive publications

The patent examiner only gets about a day and a half to do his/her entire review. They can do keyword searches for journal articles and that's about it. They don't have the time to search every bit of published free software on the planet. This effort, if I understand correctly, it to try to get the prior art in a form that the patent examiners will actually see it.


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Kügler: Best practises for writing defensive publications

Posted Aug 28, 2012 7:42 UTC (Tue) by armijn (subscriber, #3653) [Link]

Exactly. This is just about bringing it in front of the patent examiners. Nothing more, nothing less.

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