IANAL, of course, but I can think of no reason not to release the information on the patent being sought. It's not like the information would be dangerous to spread around. It's certainly not libellous (or slanderous, depending on how it's presented) to talk about killing a company's bad patent. The PATNEWS mailing list is all about bad patents, and the author (Gregory Aharonian), who says all kinds of things about the companies that go for these absurd patents, IS a lawyer.
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IANAL, of course, but I can think of no reason not to release the information on the patent being sought. It's not like the information would be dangerous to spread around. It's certainly not libellous (or slanderous, depending on how it's presented) to talk about killing a company's bad patent. The PATNEWS mailing list is all about bad patents, and the author (Gregory Aharonian), who says all kinds of things about the companies that go for these absurd patents, IS a lawyer.
That's what annoyed me.