Patent Act of 2005

[John Cowan]

Bruce Perens scripsit:

> Please see http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/comprint042005.pdf for
> an early print of the Patent Act of 2005. The bill does a number of good
> things for us, and currently has a really egregious portion that
> establishes a new standard for "reasonable and effective accessability"
> of prior art that would further reduce the standard for novelty of
> patents by making some prior art irrelevant. I am working on this, as
> are CCIA, EFF and the Public Patent Foundation.

It looks to me that if the prior art is findable by googling, then it's
reasonably and effectively accessible, which is a big win relative to
the previous de facto standard that prior art only exists in previous
patent filings.

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