Re: defensive publishing for medical ideas?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <877jvkpasa.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org>,
 John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:

> Barry Margolin writes:
> > But that might result in the patent being granted because the examiner
> > didn't check all the obscure journals.  You might still be able to get
> > the patent rejected during a reexamination by referring them to the
> > obscure journal, but that's more work.
> 
> And you might not, and for good reason.  Publication needs to be somewhere
> such that the article is likely to be seen by a diligent practitioner of
> the art.  Otherwise you could protect trade secrets from being
> independently invented and patented by publishing them in a classified ad
> in a local village newspaper in Outer Slobovia.

The previous poster was merely suggesting less restrictive journals, not 
locations totally unrelated to the subject industry.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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