Re: Seen on aus.legal

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 22:23:52 GMT

Brian M. Scott wrote:
>
> On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 13:40:14 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in
> <news:41ADC9BC.7959@worldnet.att.net> in sci.lang:
>
> > Your claim was that "caveatted" is not specific to Australian
> > jurisprudence, but is current in US patent law.
>
> No, he said that he was sure that U.S. patent law had
> something equivalent and suggested that we might call it by
> another name.
>
> > You were incorrect.
>
> > Someone apparently familiar with US patent law even said so.
>
> Rather, he said that the term is not now used in U.S. patent
> law. It used to be, however. A caveat was a preliminary
> application in which the inventor made claim to one or more
> potential inventions without presenting the detail necessary
> for a formal application. The caveat system was abolished
> in 1910, though it was already in disuse.
> <http://edison.rutgers.edu/paulpats.htm>
>
> A quick search did not turn up any examples comparable to
> 'to caveat an invention', but since the noun is obsolete in
> this sense, that's not really evidence of much of anything.

As I just said to someone crossposting from a coin collecting group to
nyc.transit, you took 11 lines (can it be coincidence?) to concede that
I was correct. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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