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Re: How to put info in the public domain for patent puropses?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Ioannidis)
Thu Jan 14 12:51:45 1999
From: John Ioannidis <ji@research.att.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:18:15 -0500 (EST)
To: cryptography@c2.net, reinhold@world.std.com
> Is there a low hassle, inexpensive way to place a crypto invention into the
> public domain for patent purposes?
I believe that printing them, putting them in a binder, and taking them
to your local public or university library is sufficient. This has
definitely worked to place potentially export-restricted documents in the
public domain so they would no longer be export-restricted (I believe
the documents in question were the Qualcomm CDMA documentation, and
the library was the UCSD Engineering Library; someone please correct me
if this information is inaccurate).
/ji
