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The whole purpose of the patent laws is to publish new technology that eventually will become public property --- NO SECRETS !

It has to be made known and in reality too !

659 posted on 05/09/2003 2:31:29 AM PDT by f.Christian (( Marching orders: comfort the afflicted // afflict the comfortable ! ! ))

Your general understanding of patent law is correct, but I think I probably know more than you do about how patents are written. I'm a lawyer, worked on a few patents applications, and my husband has been a patent examiner for 15 years. Lawyers who write patent applications typically are engineers but not necessarily in the field that they are writing about.

So, to some extent they may not actually understand what they are writing about, and also, as I said, patent applications are as broad as possible.

Little known fact, once upon a time you had to build a working model of a device you were patenting, but no more.

It has to be made known and in reality too !

Not true. Ask any IP (Intelectual Property) lawyer. The working model requirement was dropped in the late 1800's