---almat_private wrote: > > Here is IWAR at work in the "real world". Even if these guys didn't REALLY > invent something, they can, and are, keeping others from actually doing it. > This technique could become highly destructive. > It's difficult for me to see this your way. It seems to me that they're publishing things that they do, whether or not they've invented them, so that there's an easy reference of "prior art" to ensure that their techniques aren't patented by others. How is this "IWAR"? How is it "destructive"? Patents aren't intended to give protection to things that *others* are already doing; how does this keep "others from actually doing it" and what is the "it" - inventing? It seems to me that this is to prevent others from trying to patent something that they didn't "invent" first - which means it's not legally patentable anyway. Could you expound upon your concern? _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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