USPTO IS NOW FIRST TO FILE!!! Legislation (HR 1249) - page 2.

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Remember the lawyer who tried to patent Bitcoin? Well he can now file and get a patent on it, regardless if it was used before his patent or not.

I doubt that this bill removes the prior art restrictions. This is probably about inventors who record their ideas without publishing them and then cry foul when someone else files a patent application for one of those ideas. Since Satoshi published a paper describing Bitcoin in detail, it is prior art.

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The reality is with the current legal environment, this will keep coming up over and over again until the community decides (or an individual within the community decides).

What about trademarking/patenting and then creating a new form of license that lets the holder retain rights to its use, but explicitly states that all commercial and non-commercial uses are acceptable under the license (which should be free, both as in availability and as in beer)

Or would that count as not defending your license, which would then invalidate it? We really need to get some lawyers in this community.... I don't like what they do, but they seem neccesary for now anyways.

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Quote from: kookiekrak on July 14, 2011, 02:39:59 PM

The recently passed patent reform bill has changed the patent system from First to Invent to First to File.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1249ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr1249ih.pdf

What this means for Bitcoin:

Remember the lawyer who tried to patent Bitcoin? Well he can now file and get a patent on it, regardless if it was used before his patent or not.

People, we need to patent Bitcoin and protect it, like what was done in the past with Linux.

You should go spend a bit more time reading on how that all works. Much the same as the lawyer is confused on the laws, filing something that can be easily shown to not be a true and legitimate filing is still worthless no matter who 'files it first'....

But I do agree some legitimate source should file to provide some level of future protection from much craftier lawyer types.

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Gavin should file. He's a public face, already interfacing with the government, and he's a known quantity so if he decides to go rogue and screw the community (which I think is very unlikely, but you never know) he can be tracked down and given a very stern talking to.

Any patent lawyers on the good side of bitcoin? This would be your time to shine.

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The recently passed patent reform bill has changed the patent system from First to Invent to First to File.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1249ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr1249ih.pdf

What this means for Bitcoin:

Remember the lawyer who tried to patent Bitcoin? Well he can now file and get a patent on it, regardless if it was used before his patent or not.

People, we need to patent Bitcoin and protect it, like what was done in the past with Linux.

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