Re: Two Interesting BigNum Stories (Via Slashdot) Message #5 Posted by cyrille de Brébisson on 7 Jan 2010, 9:10 a.m., in response to message #1 by Les Bell
darn it, you guys saw that...
I obviously did not know about the prior art when I filed the application...
what is the stangest is that the thing got accepted!
one of the PB is that HP is telling us NOT to look for prior art and NOT to look in publications to see other's inventions/idea. the reason for this is that in court, when comes time to defend a patent, if the other party can show that you had knowledge of their stuff, it can be damaging to you....
anyhow, I have now made /. twice, once for good (developer friendly 20b) and once for bad (stupid patent)...
cyrille
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