Competitors will steal information and use this system to misappropriate confidential business information. How do we ensure that this doesn become a hunting ground for competitors?
At present, most patent applications are published after 18 months, whether or not they have been granted. The presumption in our system (and every other patent system) is in favor of information disclosure and there is no right under the patent system to keep an invention secret. The patent process is a quid pro quo — a bargain between the inventor and the public to disclose the invention and make its contents known publicly in exchange for the patent monopoly. As the Supreme Court has stated, “[T]he pressure for secrecy is easily exaggerated, for if the inventor of a process cannot himself ascertain a “use” for that which his process yields, he has every incentive to make his invention known to those able to do so. Finally, how likely is disclosure of a patented process to spur research by others into the uses to which the product may be put? To the extent that the patentee has power to enforce his patent, there is little incentive for others to undertake a search for uses.” The inv
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