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In reply to the discussion: Remember all those posts on DU promoting genetic testing? [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I have worked with patent attorneys with two to three times your level of experience.
If what you say about secrecy not being of value, then patent Attornies in the large company that I worked for telling me to date and summarize my development logs maybe was something that wasted my time, but I know that it did not waste my time.
So, you are a patent attorney and I have worked with a number that have a lot more experience in the very tough technology field where just having one component that makes an assembly function in a particular way HAS been patented and upheld.
I went off to do something else and thought about your making a patent broader statement. That is not necessary in some cases where a product can only be cost efficient in one zone. A person may make something that works just as well, but if it costs two to three times as much, what is the point for them. In the two situations that I mentioned, I went back and did detail studies of my development logs and experiment results and saw that only a specific range of making product works in a cost effective manner, someone can make a competing product in another range, but I would have a cost advantage as. It really doesn't matter if theirs works as well, it only matters if theirs is clearly superior, which certainly is possible, I am an engineer not God. I have enough development experience to know that nothing works only at an exact number, that is why I researched and tested the tolerances around what I produced and as a result, I know what to claim and the tolerances that I need to cover when making that claim. Edit: if anyone comes up with something within my tolerance, then the case comes down to the strength of my development logs versus any they claim to have created.