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Re:Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the publ... by Nomentatus on Sunday June 10, 2018 @07:49PM (#17280774)
No, recent court decisions say public isn't enough - the invention has to have become fairly well known to practitioners of the art. Mere publication is nothing now.
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Re:Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the publ... by DennisP on Sunday June 10, 2018 @08:50PM (#17280976)
Can you reference that? Recently I both consulted an attorney on this stuff, and did my own research, and that's the exactly opposite of what I've found.
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