OT: International patent stupidity
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:40:27AM +0100, Pavel Bradut Boghita wrote:
> I am following this thread with interest, because this whole issue of
> pattenting the wheel and then charging everyone who uses it is really quite
> perverse.
Australian Innovation Patent #2001100012 won an Ig Nobel Prize in
Technology in 2001, a (dis)honor shared by Victoria, Australia
resident John Keogh and the Australian Patent Office. AFAIK, he has
not gone about enforcing this.
Earlier this year, around May, a 10 year old boy from Portland, Oregon
won a US patent for the tire swing. Made the front page of the Metro
section in The Oregonian, though I cannot find it in the archives on
OregonLive.com for the life of me, now.
Does any patent office actually check prior art, or is it left as an
excersize for the applicant and the court system?
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Baloo
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