[[ There are questions you can`t answer and whether or not some guy in Peru has a similar prior piece of work in his sock drawer is one of them. The J3 having anything along those lines is just about as probable. ]]

Right you are Rash, if I`m not correct someone correct me, but is it not true that If someone had prior art on paper in ``a sock drawer`` someplace that it would be useless unless it had been publicly known about by some means like publishing it in a paper or such. Say for instance that there is someone who came up with the same or simular idea a month ahead of Moore/Fish and wrote it down on paper, however just through it in a drawer someplace and did nothing with it. Moore/Fish on the other hand published for others to see and went after patents on it and was granted the patents. At this point along comes the paper out of the drawer, IMO the court would tell the paper holder, sorry you should have published you paper or somehow made it known to all for you to have any clam to make the Moore``Fish patent invalid.

Is this not true? and if it is, would you not think that with the fight between TPL and PTSC over Moore and Fish that someone would have jumped in and spoild everything with such claims??