Re: Patent or not patent a new idea

[Bryan Henderson]

>If your only purpose is to try generate a defensive patent, then just
>dumping the idea in the public domain serves the same purpose, probably
>better.
>
>I have a few patents, some of which are defensive. That has not prevented
>the USPTO issuing quite a few patents that are in clear violation of 
mine.

That's not what a defensive patent is.  Indeed, patenting something just 
so someone else can't patent it is ridiculous, because publishing is so 
much easier.

A defensive patent is one you file so that you can trade rights to it for 
rights to other patents that you need.


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