Re: Tux 2 patents

From: Daniel Phillips (news-innominate.list.linux.kernel@innominate.de)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 15:29:18 EDT

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    "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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