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In article <8115@optima.cs.arizona.edu> cjeffery@optima.UUCP (Clinton Jeffery) writes:
>From article <MWM.91Oct8114310@raven.pa.dec.com>, by mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer):
>
>> 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.
>
>Not a bad idea.  Now, how minimal could such a journal be and still
>stand up in court as a legit publication, i.e. that it really is
>prior art.  And how much would it really cost to do, and how would
>it best be financed?  If we're talking about coredumping EVERYONE'S
>prior art, this is a potentially large publication in terms of # of pages.

How about just publishing electronically, with an archive somewhere?
It would still be big, but now we are only talking disk pages :-).
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