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What is really an invention for the patent examiners ?
Fri, 09/04/2009 - 00:39 by Olivier Bonaventure • Categories:
The patent protection system was designed a long time ago to encourage companies to publicly disclose their industrial and trade secrets so that other companies could use them later. In exchange of this public disclosure, companies received a protection as a period of exclusive usage. In recent years, we've seen a growth in the number of submitted patents and surprisingly, the patent examiners have granted patents to dubious inventions such as :