"Immortal computing" initiative by Microsoft

[Brad Parker]

"Jim Isbell, W5JAI" wrote:
>"Prior Art" has no standing anymore.  Its now, who gets there first
>with the patent.  Been that way for about 5 years now (maybe longer)
>when they changed the law.

Recent conversations with an engineer who works for lawyers finding
"prior art" would indicate there is some flaw in this comment.

They're certainly paying him regularly to find it, so it must have
some value in fighting patents.

(and I suspect that sort of thing causes some of the "does anyone have
a copy of frozzbozz version 2.0 disk + manual" traffic on this list)

-brad