Re: Tux 2 patents

Daniel Phillips (news-innominate.list.linux.kernel@innominate.de)
Fri, 06 Oct 2000 21:29:18 +0200

"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
>
> And you only get the year of protection **IF** you have filed a
> provisional patent application, which expires 12 months after it's
> issued. You must then file a non-provisional patent application before
> the year runs out, or you cannot patent the techniques.

IOW, there is *no chance* to get a white-hat patent on anything I've
described on these lists recently. That doesn't bother me a lot since
there is still a lot I haven't described. What should I do, put it all
in the totally-public domain and let evildoers have it too, or should I
do interim patent applications from now on?

--
Daniel
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