Talk:Mousepad
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Purpose of a disclosure statement
I wanted to make something clear in my recent edit about disclosure statements. When a company issues a disclosure, it is not to secure their rights to the invention in any way, it is to make the idea public. This ensures that nobody else can subsequently get a patent on the same product, but indicates that the company making the disclosure has no intention of applying for a patent themselves.
The implication is normally (although this would be OR and therefore can't go in the article) that the disclosed product was not considered sufficiently new or inventive to be worthwhile pursuing a patent for. It is also possible that the Xerox did not think that the product would be worth protecting even if it was new and inventive.
Whatever the reason for the disclosure statement, we do not know what it was and cannot make guesses within the article. GDallimore (Talk) 20:23, 10 August 2007 (UTC)