No.
No.
Posted Aug 4, 2004 15:38 UTC (Wed) by raytd (guest, #4823)In reply to: No. by dwheeler
Parent article: Linux Scare Tactics (Forbes)
No. For patents, whoever registers first owns the idea. (bold emphasis added)
May I ask what leads you to believe ideas are patentable? I have been taught that it is the implementation of an idea that is patentable. Not the idea itself.