Which is a really, really rubbish way to do patent law. I suppose it does in
a way comply with the pure capitalist basis of the US though, in that under
such a system the big guy always wins irrespective of the merits of their
position.

On 11/20/06, M Graff <explorer-piclist@flame.org> wrote:
>
> David VanHorn wrote:
> > I'm constantly amazed at what the patent office thinks is "not obvious
> to
> > the skilled practitioner".  High power RF has been done this way since
> > forever.
>
> The US patent office has stated that they aren't even looking at
> patents, as the person who patented the patent process has shown.
>
> They are relying upon the courts to defend -- and vet -- patents now.
> At most they do a simple keyword search.
>
> --Michael
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