Re: Can we get patents?

I've talked to a friend of mine who is a patent lawyer.

1) in Europe if it is in the public domain then it cannot be patented
2) in North America you would have to patent before submitting to the 
project.
3) His question was why? With a bsd license you can't stop anyone from 
using it and nobody
else can patent it since by placing it in the project you are 
establishing prior art.

Dave

David Walker wrote:

>>That depends; is the SFLC offering to pay for the patent applications?  Last 
>>I 
>>checked, it was somewhere around $6000 per patent.
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>Nolo press (www.nolo.com) sells a book on patents. Many people file their own 
>patent applications successfully. The cost is less that $1000.
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>David
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