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Seeking Prior Art Before Filing Patent? 86

An anonymous reader asks: "I had a sort of out-there idea for computer hardware, and wanted to investigate design and manufacture. I figure the first step would be to patent the idea so that I am protected from it being stolen, while I confer with contractors about fabrication and circuit design. Does anyone know of ways to check for prior art, other than hitting up Google for something similar? I believe this idea is unique, but you never know what could have been out there, and I didn't know if there were any good resources on the web. Since the readership seems to be an inventive bunch, I think discussion on this topic may help more people than myself."
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Journal Journal: What is with Zealots??

You know, I have been using linux for about 5 years now. Before that, I used a couple flavors of BSD, and Windows. I still use Windows on a day to day basis at work. My laptop runs XP, most of our desktops run a variety of 98, 2k, and XP, and our file servers run 2k. I have a firewall/router setup on OpenBSD, and a network monitoring machine that runs SlackWare.
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Journal Journal: A rather boring day

Well, it looks like the SCO hub-bub has cut down for a day or so. Haven't seen any new stories anyway. Haven't done any posting today, but then again, I really don't do too much posting. I will through in my .02 every once in a while, but I am rather quite. I'm planning on restructuring my home network. I got this awesome p75 w/ 16m of ram today. It is going to make a rather sweet firewall. Yeah, I am going to put linux on it. I've been working on bringing the level of
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Journal Journal: First Journal.

Yeah, I finally decided to write in my slashdot journal. I just wanted everyone else to see my nonsense ravings. I finally decided to write in my journal after my posts on the QT4 article. I just don't understand some opensource projects. "Oh, lets change the underlying api's but keep source compatibility, and lets do it on the release of every major version. Then during the minor versions, we'll break binary compatibility on every 4th release, just to keep the other projects guessing."

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