| dzho | so copyright arises by default, and must be granted (to distill things down quite a lot for the sake of brevity and clarity" | 17:09 |
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| dzho | patent on the other hand is *not* automatic. so, there need be no explicit grant. | 17:09 |
| dzho | what's more, putting something into public view can very well establish it as prior art, thus invalidating any later attempt to patent it. | 17:10 |
| dzho | so, a declaration that something is in the public domain may be sufficient, I think, is the idea. | 17:10 |
| dzho | but yeah IANAL just a nerd about this. | 17:10 |
| dzho | this all got a lot simpler, in principle, when the US harmonized its patent regime with the rest of the world, moving from "first to invent" to "first to file" | 17:11 |
| dzho | I think there is a sort of grace period after publishing details of any putative invention in which one can file for the patent | 17:12 |
| dzho | "must be granted" by the holder, to a third party | 19:33 |
| dzho | in order for that third party to use it legitimately in the eyes of the copyright regime | 19:33 |
| dzho | a would-be patent holder has to ask to get a patent in the first place, and so maybe doesn't even have anything *specific* to grant! | 19:34 |
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