On Jul 22, 2019, at 12:23, Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 7/22/19 12:18 PM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: > >> - However, it seems prudent to point out that the person doing the disclosure >> may well be the best person on the planet to actually be able to ferret >> out which patent is the applicable one; anybody else trying to use >> incomplete form information to identify the right patent could find it >> impossible. > > I would not want to put that responsibility on a third-party filer, though. Sometimes there are multiple patent applications, in one or more countries, covering a single invention. Sometimes patent applications sit in various stages of approval for months or years before any patents are issued (or not). The text in the RFC gets that right, both sides of the medal (the desire for reports to be useful vs. the desire for them to be there at all, if necessary through a third party). That should be what guides the implementation. Grüße, Carsten
