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Originally Posted by rednichols
Patents can be a crude club against competitors because the inventors, and the attorneys, rarely known enough about the prior art and therefore what is 'novel' to write them well. Baker's is an example of the inventor and his attorney not knowing how to draft a patent that protected what Roy actually created.
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So, in the bigger picture, by being overly prescriptive in the patent claim; Baker and his attorney missed the opportunity to patent the concept of a holster design with THE 'novel' feature of belt slots either side of the pocket, both trailing and forward. Or, am I missing something?