I'm not a lawyer (duh) but from what I read in the definition of 'prior art'
could also pertain to works of fiction... ie books, movies, ect...
Could call it the 'Star Wars' defense... Leah recording her message
to Obi Wan on disk and storing it in R2D2 for later playback by
Luke when he's cleaning up droid... Aren't examples of this nature
considered viable prior art? Asmov, Heinlein... I'm sure there are
tons of examples in various literature from 70s or before...
What about old Star Trek's? When a distress message is encoded
and sent to Enterprise or top secret orders come down from Fleet
Command...
Or is all that not valid?
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