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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] The PATENTED IBM MULTI-PIPE : the evolution of unix pipes
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:21:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2afebef52a460229d7c9056180140ea@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130315181740.C14B3B834@mail.bitblocks.com>

On Fri Mar 15 14:18:28 EDT 2013, bakul@bitblocks.com wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:46:54 EDT Kurt H Maier <khm-9@intma.in> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:29:09AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> > >
> > > If it is same or close enough, what matters is if your code can be
> > > shown as prior art.
> >
> > I don't see how.  The US is first-to-file land, now.
>
> I believe prior art does matter.  Otherwise I can trawl
> through all old tech papers and start filing patents left and
> right -- wouldn't be surprised if someone has already tried
> that!  I am not a lawyer etc.

ianal, but i believe no disclosure is allowed before filing.
it's a deal.  disclosure for patent.  if it's already disclosed
there can't be a deal.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-15 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-15 13:21 mycroftiv
2013-03-15 14:58 ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-15 15:04 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-15 15:51   ` hiro
2013-03-15 16:47   ` John Floren
2013-03-15 17:29 ` Bakul Shah
2013-03-15 17:37   ` hiro
2013-03-15 17:46   ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-15 18:17     ` Bakul Shah
2013-03-15 18:21       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2013-03-15 20:32       ` Charles Forsyth
2013-03-15 19:20     ` Matthew Veety
2013-03-15 19:26       ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-15 15:31 mycroftiv
2013-03-15 17:17 mycroftiv
2013-03-15 17:28 ` John Floren
2013-03-15 17:41 mycroftiv

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