On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 14:35:50 -0500, Alan Beagley
wrote:

I understand that patents do not always tell the whole story either:
many, many years ago I worked in a pharmaceutical laboratory where we
were trying to come up with a product that circumvented a German patent,
but we could not even get the process described in the patent to work --
they may have omitted mention of a catalyst.

-=-
Alan

Hi Alan,

More their problem. By law, a patent is FULL disclosure. Failure to
that end is sufficient to nullify it. If you simply copied their work
and added that "catalyst," then you have just nudged their patent into
the dust bin.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC