At 10:54 PM 11/14/96 -0600, you wrote:
>At 12:33 PM 11/14/96 -0800, you wrote:
>>
>>     Hence you can also patent a product/techinique/algorithm and possibly
>>     source code that you have developed. But you can also patent possibel
>>     variations on it as well that you feel people may come up with, but
>>     you do NOT actually have to have them developed?
>>
>>
>Nope.  The patent office required you to have a working model to get a
>patent.  Thus you can't patent an idea for a widget unless you build the
>widget.  You can't patent a process unless you can demonstrate the process
>works.

Having worked on a prototype for a product which already had a patent in
place, I am sure there are ways around what you just stated.

-todd.

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