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To: RX4PROFIT who wrote (46558)	8/16/2005 7:46:53 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Respond to of 213172

The less significant the issue, the more the ink flowZZZzzzzzz...

To: RX4PROFIT who wrote (46558)	8/17/2005 12:39:57 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213172

All - As someone recently pointed out here, you cannot get a patent for something that has already been made available to the public by someone else. The term is "prior art", and it's a long-standing fundamental principle of patent law. This whole thing is ridiculous, and as WLD said, is just another example of how the media waste our time with massive coverage of unimportant stories. - Allen PS: The exception to the "prior art" principle would be any case where the patent applicant could demonstrate that he (or she) had shown the invention to the person or company prior to the introduction of the product to the market, and prior to any development work on that product.