// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was IBM data sad? It had a bulletin to disclose.
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The IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin was a technical publication produced by IBM between 1958 and 1998.[1] The purpose of the Bulletin was to disclose inventions that IBM did not want their competitors to get patents on. The Bulletin was a form of defensive publication. By publishing the details of how to make and use the invention, patent examiners could have a searchable source of prior art that they could cite against subsequent patent applications filed by others on the same or similar inventions.
The Bulletin has been cited over 48,000 times in various United States patents.[2]
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[edit]- ↑ "IBM intellectual property and licensing - Technical disclosures for patents". www.ibm.com. 3 April 2001. Archived from the original on 26 March 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ Delphion Web site, http://www.delphion.com/search-prior_art#tdb,[dead link] retrieved on June 20, 2006