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In 2002, I visited an historic railway site in Australia, where traditional Australian folk songs were played on the public address system, songs like “Click Go the Shears,” which provided technical details of the arcane craft of shearing.
What is that all about? Who knows, but it still works as a song. I thought, there should be songs like that about patent attorneys!
This video extols the Patent and Trademark Office’s form SB08a which is used to list prior art. Mr. Stiennon notes that the song itself, being from 2002, has started to take on a bit of the archaic flavor of a true folk song, as Patent and Trademark Office regulations have changed somewhat in the last 20 years.
If you are in the process of patenting an innovation, you may be wondering whether you should publish your application. Wisconsin patent attorney David Stiennon explains the potential advantages and disadvantages of publishing a patent application.
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