24 Aug
2004
24 Aug
'04
7:28 p.m.
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 11:09, Jennifer Dillon wrote:
I have been experimenting with psychoacoustic mehods
and enhancement in both
hardware and software for the last 20 years and there already is quite a lot
of information in the Public Domain. Do the new patent laws allow somebody to
patent methods that are already in the public domain???
Technically no. This would be prior art. Knowingly filing a patent on
prior art would be illegal, however, Miro$oft seems to keep filing and
getting patents (and, hopefully, getting them shot down) on things that
had prior art. I guess they don't "knowingly" do it ;-)
Jan