On Saturday 04 November 2006 00:04, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 03 November 2006 21:02, jfweber@gilweber.com wrote:
10:17 pm, Darryl Gregorash wrote: ...
What *is* a real impediment to innovation and progress is the idiotic system which allows a patent to be issued for nothing more than the *idea* of putting a GPS unit onto a PCI card.
You are wrong, it's not *just* the idea, someone must actually have a working or workable way to do it.. they have to produce diagrams AND a working model.
Untrue.
The term of art in patent law is "reduction to practice." It is not required for a valid patent filing in the U.S.
My mom came up with something about a year ago, and when she got a patent attorney to help her get it patented, she *did* have to have drawings and such to show how it worked, what went where, why, and she had to have an example of the object (product?) etc. (sorry if this is what you just said....most stuff 'legal' makes absolutely no sense to me, heh) -- Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented worker', is like calling a home intruder an 'unwanted houseguest'.