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- To: "MLUG Off-Topic Discussion" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
- Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] landmark patent case is a victory for innovation
- From: "Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 14:23:04 -0400
- Delivery-date: Tue, 01 May 2007 13:23:20 -0500
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On 5/1/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Jonathan King wrote:
I have to say that it isn't all that great of an idea if I came up with
the core concept off the top of my head when trying to create a really
stupid invention. So what did you do? Search for "mouse AND vacuum" at
USPO?
Nah, I googled "mouse vacuum trap", saw the device mentioned, scooped
the patent number and did a PN search just to make you think I didn't
just use google. More seriously, the patent database is an
*outstanding* resource for many things, and I probably could have done
all sorts of cool things with it. You could do far worse than to come
up with an automated method for finding unpatented inventions via
searching electronic databases; hmm...that might just be patentable.
:-)
jking
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