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Consider a Spherical Patent
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Consider a Spherical Patent

by Joseph E. Gortych
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
267 pages
10h 39m
English
CRC Press
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Consider a Spherical Patent: IP and Patenting in Technology Business
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very similar subject matter and therefore residing near each other in IP space,
nevertheless have dierent claims and occupy dierent parts of the IP space.
If, to be patentable, an invention had only to be novel, then the spherical patents
in the IP space could just touch each other and the prior art, as in the Apollonian
gasket example of Figures8.3(a) through 8.3(f). e distance D would be zero.
As long as the claims were not identical, the spherical patents could be said to
cover dierent inventions and thus could be considered novel with respect to
each other and to ...
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