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In article <MONTNARO.91Oct8122759@spyder.crd.ge.com> montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) writes:
   It may take a lot of money to successfully get a patent, however, it might
   not take much money to write a patent application that is sufficiently
   complete/complex/worthy that it can't be trivially rejected by the USPTO. If
   that proves true, how about a little civil disobedience? Flood the USPTO
   with tons of patent applications, effectively rendering the system useless.

$315/application, with extras tacked on for lots of claims. And you
have to pay twice that unless you qualify as an independent inventor
or a small business.

I thought about patenting things just to insure that I'd be able to
use them later, talked to some people in the PTO, and then ordered a
booklet on patents from the government printing office. That's where
that $ figure comes from. I eventually decided it wasn't worth it.

On the other hand, if someone wants to provide a publication for the
sole purpose of "prior art", I'd gladly send things there. Just
publish "patent applications" that aren't sent to the patent office.
Since the sole use is to provide prior art for fighting patents, you
don't need to be to strict about what's on the application.

	<mike
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