[ODE] Quickstep and patents

[Ignacio García]

Jon Watte (ODE) escribió:
> Giel van Schijndel wrote:
>   
>> As usual the US patent office does hardly any checking for prior art (sigh).
>>
>>     
> This is an observation from the outside, though, but saying they do 
> "hardly any checking for prior art" is patently false (pun intended).
>   
As far as I konw, Spanish and European patents are quite easilly 
accepted. A technical report is issued, with a list of  'related / 
similar / very similiar' existing patents, but they are used only if a 
claim is done that a patent should not be valid, once it is accepted.


Regards