Re: Is patent description copyrighted ?

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:08:16 +0000, Paul Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I suggest that to copy the description of another, when preparing a 
> client's patent application, is a dereliction of the duty to make one's 
> own proper and best attempt to describe the client's invention.  An 

Copying the description of the invention is probably not likely to happen
for the reasons you give here, but copying sections of background material
would not seem to present the same problem.

> description was the optimum?  How does he know that it contained no 
> errors of fact, and missed no pertinent statement?  

Because he read the material he copied?  If the practitioner has done
his own evaluation of the client's invention, he is in a position to be
able to recognize correct statements and may find that reading and copying
is easier than drafting his own words.  I think you overstate the case
here.

Isaac