On: Fluid windows

[drschwabe]

Quick, patent this!

[markokocic → drschwabe]

You can't. This page would count as prior art.

[cookingrobot → markokocic]

Not prior art, but public disclosure.

[bajsejohannes → cookingrobot]

So what if I remake it before he patents it? Is my implementation then prior art?

If you're right, the patent system is yet again more broken then I thought.

[prewett → bajsejohannes]

No, he has 1 year from public disclosure to file for a patent (in the US, as of 2006 when I took my IP law class [IANAL, btw]). You could not file for a patent because his public disclosure would count as prior art for you, unless you could prove that you had the idea before his publication.

[markokocic → cookingrobot]

You are right. You cannot patent something that has already been published elsewhere.

[xenonite → markokocic]

how can you be so sure