[JDEV] Microsoft Patenting IM Translation

[Frank Gates]

You cannot tell them what is patentable and what is not; they are the ones to
decide that.  But you can disclose products/ideas/etc in a journal that
relinquishes your rights to patent that idea and still protects your rights to
use it (because it also prevents anyone else from patenting it too).  I cannot
remember which journal or publication it is that this is done in.

I know of this procedure because Xerox had developed the laser printer at PARC
and the powers-that-be decided it was a worthless idea and disclosed this idea
to prevent anyone else from developing the patent for this.   Of course, laser
printers turned out to be a billion dollar a year business for them...

Frank

Sebastian Vollnhals wrote:

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> > Alternately, you may publicly document all ideas to prevent new patents
> > from being accepted.   And the documentation of those ideas must be in
> > forums that the patent office will notice in evaluating claims...
> > Otherwise, it will require litigation to expose your work as prior art.
> > (Meaning, i don't think the patent office will search JDEV or other
> > online forums to test claims prior to making its decisions.)
>
> is there any possibility to tell the patent office, that something is not
> patentable? (for example by expressively "not-patenting" an idea, software,
> etc)
>
> Sebastian
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