Quotes About Prior art

Your invention must be new. The USPTO grants patents for new (or "novel") inventions only. Your invention isn't new if someone previously invented it, patented it, or wrote about it before your filing date. However, there would be an exception if you (the inventor) or anyone who obtained the subject matter from you made certain disclosures of the claimed invention within a limited one-year grace period before filing.

Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars.

Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.