> file' issuance of patents. Until recently you could get a USA
> patent overturned by proving you invented it first (Gordon Gould
>
> In summary, a 'sealed envelope' is now next to useless for getting
> or challenging a patent in the USA.

While I can't argue the legal niceties, that does seem unfair to the
"average" inventor, who more than likely is poorly funded compared
to a corporate that can steamroller in and swipe the product merely
by dint of being able to afford the paperwork. It's a shitty old world
innit ?

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