On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:30:20 -0500 Olin Lathrop
<olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM> writes:
> > I think patent applications
> > should be published for public comment prior to the granting of a
> patent.
>
> So, you want inventors to reveal their technology without any
> guarantee that
> a patent will be granted!!?
>
>

        Yes! If indeed there is no prior art or the design is not obvious, the
patent would be granted. I have heard other countries do this, but do not
know it for sure.

Harold


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