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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:22:26 +1100, Peter Wiley
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Dave is making it up as he goes along. Either that, or he's the most incompetent
lawyer on the planet. He believes Bush, which gives you some idea of how easy it
is to spoon feed him nonsense and have him take it to heart.

A patent is no guarantee that someone else won't take your IDEA and use it as if
it was their own. All it does is give you legal standing to spend thousands or
millions of dollars defending it. If you don't have thousands or millions at
your disposal to spend defending your patent, tough luck, bub.

Quite true. I happen to know from experience that holding a patent is
not going to stop someone from using your idea.



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