[3970] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: How to put info in the public domain for patent puropses?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R Levine)
Thu Jan 14 11:31:33 1999
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:03:29 -0500 (EST)
From: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <v03130304b2c32c19854d@[24.128.119.92]>
> 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.
How about one of the ACM SIG newsletters? They turn around pretty quickly,
tend to print everything they receive give or take broad guidelines of
topicality and legibility, and are considered real publications with ISSNs
that you can find in libraries.
Some years I considered starting a software invention disclosure journal in
which people could publish hacks that they wanted to prevent others from
patenting, but I figured that SIGPLAN would do as well.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4 2D AC 1E 9E A6 36 A3 47
