US dominates net-security patents, China, Canada and Oz on the advance The US, China, Canada and Australia are the world's major sources of security patents, according to analysis by LexInnova. The company issued a report on Friday looking at the market for security patent licensing. It'll come as no surprise that Cisco is the 800-pound gorilla of the security game with 6,442 patents (followed …
You can't patent something that has been already patented.
probably can't patent something that is already out there either.
That said, there are some patents which are around but will never be used and others that have the oddest patenting [at least maybe until there are in conjunction with another patent].
probably can't patent something that is already out there either.
I've had quite a few patents[1] granted. They involve innovative solutions such as "using data-reordering instructions to re-order data" and "using the Count Leading Zeroes instruction to count leading zeroes". These are all current and available for use by my previous employer as a stick with which to beat competitors...
Vic.
[1] All of my patents are utterly useless. All of them. But I was young, and didn't know any better - I got paid quite a bit of cash for each filing, and more for each granting.
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