Hummm, interesting. Thanks for the info. Does that mean that I can file a patent application for something that already exist but does not have a patent covering it?
Seems to me that the USPTO is slowly but surely loosing its meaning. I mean, there was so much prior art on this one, how could they even consider the application in the first place? The more they accept these kind of patents, the less they serve their purpose. Their mission (from their site):
USPTO encourages technological advancement by providing incentives to invent, invest in, and disclose new technology worldwide
. Seems to me that their mission is more like:
USPTO encourages its own financial advancement and the proliferation of unproductive patent law firms by providing incentives to create legal ammo for the big corporations that can afford the insanly expensive process of filing a patent
. Oh well, we will just have to produce and sell our nice new inventions from China where they could not care less about respecting and enforcing all that nonsense.
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Hummm, interesting. Thanks for the info. Does that mean that I can file a patent application for something that already exist but does not have a patent covering it?