Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> "[...] is not accessible by description, use or otherwise, in any
> country." 

Let's face it, without a worldwide administration of prior art (which kind 
of implies at least the start of a world government), there won't be a fix 
to the patent system. Whether that can fix it though is not really clear :)

There's no way currently that any patent office (nor any inventor) can 
research prior art "in any country" reasonably (reasonable certainty, 
reasonable timeframe, reasonable price, reasonable everything :).

Which then makes the value of a patent that what it currently is, mostly: 
it's worth as much as you can spend to defend it.


> Accessible does not seem to be easily defined

Is there ever a law that is in its entirety "easily defined"? :)

Gerhard

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