This is why I think the USPTO is ridiculous, especially in light of Apple vs. Everyone they can extort =P (eg, Samsung, HTC, Google, etc.)
http://blog.joshuafox.com/2012/10/the-evil-engineers-guide-to-patents.html
That said, this is on my do to list just to see the whole process and whether or not I should do it for something in the future just to protect my/our work (so people like Apple can't just patent something you made but didn't bother patenting). And then I could open source/give out ALL the licences for it. =D
http://blog.joshuafox.com/2012/10/the-evil-engineers-guide-to-patents.html
That said, this is on my do to list just to see the whole process and whether or not I should do it for something in the future just to protect my/our work (so people like Apple can't just patent something you made but didn't bother patenting). And then I could open source/give out ALL the licences for it. =D
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