Fw: Legal Alert: Internet Access Now Available To Pending Patent Application Files

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

With the new IPR changes approaching - this does indeed signal new
changes generally.

I also wonder here if OASIS itself may take advantage of the PTO
openness to regularly scan such pending applications for possible
conflicts with public standards and specifications?

Some vendors out there are staggeringly ignorant of existing IP.

I just sat through a demo today where a vendor claimed they had
invented a notion that has been in an OASIS standard for 5 years
now.  At least they had had the good sense to not try and
patent it.

Oh well!

DW
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Date: 8/4/2004  3:01 PM

RE: Legal Alert: Internet Access Now Available To Pending Patent Application
Files


The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has just made available on the Internet
all documents in the files of pending published U.S. patent applications.
This changes the field of play.  It is now generally possible to learn more
about what a competitor is trying to patent and is succeeding in
patenting -- and to learn it significantly sooner.