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From: Archimedes' Lever <OneBigLe...@InfiniteSeries.Org>

Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:09:29 -0800

Local: Thurs, Nov 5 2009 8:09 am

Subject: Re: PCB Encapsulants to Annoy Copy Pirates

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On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:33:45 -0800, D from BC <myrealaddr...@comic.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:10:48 -0800 (PST), "J.A. Legris"
><jaleg...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>>IIRC you should apply for the patent before you release the product
>>(or even just keep it secret) or you may lose your rights. This
>>presumes patenting the thing is a good idea in the first place - which
>>is unlikely unless you have deep pockets.

>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art

>It's not fair if I lose my patentability rights when I'd like to
>release 200 units for ~field testing~ :)
>to tweek and finalize the design.

You can tweak the design at the bench by beating the hell out of a few
units, and being very good at recording and analysis of observed data.

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