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Originally Posted by 4throck
...It doesn't seem to me to be within the spirit of competition to patent these things. Teams shouldn't be in this to make a profit, nor should they be able to...I'm pretty sure our team could have gotten a patent or two in years past, but it isn't in the spirit of the game to be so secretive.
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You might have the wrong idea of what a patent is and what it does. It certainly doesn't keep anything secret. Note that by applying for a patent, one makes the information
public.
A patent merely gives its owner [temporary] ownership of a product or process. Nothing makes that owner prevent others from using it. All it does is forbid others from profiting from it
without the owner's permission.
Everyone please breathe before you post. - Jessica Boucher [more] 
08-05-2007, 13:35
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