Patent applicants are free to ignore the online community's discussions and respond only to the office action, as they always have.
专利申请可以自由的略过线上社区的讨论,只对官方行为作出回应,如原来那样。
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When an invention is made, the inventor has three possible courses of action open to him: he can give the invention to the world by publishing it, keep the idea secret, or patent it.