| (patents) A caveat is a warning, or notification, that you are working on something you are intending to patent.
The most famous caveat in history is the one of Elisha Gray, possibly the true inventor of the telephone.
Like all others who were in quest of a better telegraph instrument, Gray had glimmerings of the possibility of sending speech by wire, and by one of the strangest of coincidences he filed a caveat on the subject on the SAME DAY that Bell filed the application for a patent. |
