24 Mar
2005
24 Mar
'05
2:17 a.m.
Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
With all due respects to the efforts and the results, this is only half the battle. It now turns out that what are obviously s/w patents _are_ being issued. It seems that the trickis to draft the patent application in such a way as to evade the guidelines issued by the controller.
This deserves a deeper study.
There is no harm in warning the PO from issuing patents in a casual manner. But, "deep study" of the junk in the PO sounds scary.