Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Tux 2 patents | Date | Fri, 06 Oct 2000 21:29:18 +0200 |
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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?
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