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A comment on Apple's petition against RED. Parent comment

Re:Apple's petition against RED by IshKebab on Thursday August 22, 2019 @04:27AM (#20765863)
Yes. If they released it publicly in 2007 they can't then go and patent it in 2008.
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Re:Apple's petition against RED by johnny-lee on Thursday August 22, 2019 @06:02PM (#20772805)
The USA and certain other countries allow a grace period between disclosure of an invention and the patent application for that invention before that invention disclosure becomes prior art. For the USA, the grace period is 12 months, for other countries, it's 6 months.
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Re:Apple's petition against RED by rasz on Thursday August 22, 2019 @05:30AM (#20766197)
they had provisional application out in April 2007.
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