From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Tue Jun 24 2003 - 18:55:44 MDT
--- Brett Paatsch <paatschb@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> But with this Secret Patent idea, based on a convo I
> had with a
> patent office guy in Australia, the would be
> patenter subs their
> application and if anything weaponish grabs the
> attention of the
> examiner, the examiner is obliged to shoot it off to
> the the defence
> department for the once over.
I don't know about Australia, but the US PTO has
safeguards against just that sort of thing - and
explicit rules for when it's allowed, which for the
most part sum up to, "nuclear weapons are
unpatentable". (Says nothing about biotech, for
instance, so that can't be appropriated as easily...)
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