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by btrettel
1585 days ago
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If you're implying that only filed patent applications are available as prior art, that's not right. Anything available to the public can be prior art in the US. (Even some private things can be prior art in the US, for example, an offer to sell the invention creates prior art even if completely confidential.) If MS filed a patent application before anyone else, they could still receive a prior art rejection for anything available to the public like code available online, academic papers, etc. (Source: I'm a former patent examiner.) |
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