[antiRepublicrat]

should you find yourself in the position of being an inventor who after submitting your patent application to the PTO, shopped your invention around the industry but got a cold reception only to learn later (but before the patent was awarded) that companies you disclosed your invention to liked your idea and are now designing products around your claimed preferred embodiment

I have a friend who has been going through this very thing for years. But the companies are violating what he patented, he didn't change his patent to encompass what others had invented but could be covered by broad wording designed to encompass things he hadn't even envisioned.

But you're right, it is the law. But like copyright we've strayed far from the intent of the clause of the Constitution that authorized both.

I could not disagree more vigorously.

We will have to disagree there. Rambus was required by JEDEC rules to disclose pending patents, but didn't. Rambus' defense was that JEDEC didn't enforce the rules. That is a totally BS excuse. I agree with the jury in the very non-technical finding of fraud, not the technicalities and excuses used to overrule them.

[fso301]

Rambus was required by JEDEC rules to disclose pending patents

I'm sorry but just because a crooked judge and whorish trade press says it was so doesn't mean it's true. Rambus had no duty to disclose. Had there been such a duty, the flaunting of such duty by the other JEDEC members and even the chairman himself would have negated any such duty.