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Re:Facebook Patents The Feed by pbiggar on Friday February 26, 2010 @01:06AM (#1152546)
I'm pretty sure Facebook bought friendfeed. I'm not sure exactly how patents work, but it seems this would mean you couldn't cite friendfeed as prior art.
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Re:Facebook Patents The Feed by mkramlich on Friday February 26, 2010 @02:15AM (#1152654)
Don't worry, the USPTO doesn't know how patents work either.
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Re:Facebook Patents The Feed by DennisP on Friday February 26, 2010 @10:05AM (#1153236)
If a technique was publicly known, it counts as prior art.
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