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Intellectual Property

Sep. 15, 2005

Patent Ruling Is Latest Blow to Software Firm

SAN FRANCISCO - Inventors can market and sell their inventions for one year before they have to file patent applications to protect them. But they can't go hawking their wares to potential buyers in the months and years before that and hope the rights to their patents won't expire.

By Erik Cummins
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - Inventors can market and sell their inventions for one year before they have to file patent applications to protect them. But they can't go hawking their wares to potential buyers in the months and year...

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