Re: Re: Attribution is not required in public domain materials

From: Keith Tabor <ket354[_at_]yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:45:34 -0400

• Joseph Pietro Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com> wrote:
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  > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Gregory Aharonian
  > <srctran[_at_]world.std.com> wrote:
  > >
  > > Wrong. Many ideas are protectable, using the
  > patent system. ...
  >
  > Needless to say, that statement is totally wrong.
  

Well, no, it is actually quite right. Ideas are not patentable but they are protectable through the patent system. In other words, if you have a new, useful, and nonobvious idea you will look to the patent system to protect that idea. You will not claim the idea, you will draft claims consistent with the previously quoted statute that adequately protect your idea. The distinction is where the money is if you draft patents for a living.

I guess it is just a matter of symantecs, but this is a pretty literate group so I didn't think this should be overlooked.

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