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How to put info in the public domain for patent puropses?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Thu Jan 14 11:05:56 1999
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:07:46 -0500
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
I f I recall correctly, the US Patent and Trademark Office has said that it
would not consider information placed on the Internet to be published for
patent purposes. Preparoing papers for journals or conferences is a pain,
takes months to be published and runs the risk of rejection.
Is there a low hassle, inexpensive way to place a crypto invention into the
public domain for patent purposes?
Arnold Reinhold
