If you still don’t know what it means, Michael, then the lawyers were successful. Truly, their goal is to obtain the broadest possible scope in a claim, so any ambiguity is calculated, not accidental. Bruce B Cox OCIO/AED/Software Architecture and Engineering Division 571-272-9004 From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@saxonica.com] On 06/02/2012 23:32, Cox, Bruce wrote: To give an example, the patent business model has been very stable for about a hundred years. True, the vocabulary has changed Really? As far as I can see, patents still use the word "plurality" as often as they can, and I still don't know if it means "one or more", "two or more", or "zero or more". |