Dear people,

Since I am in the process myself, I can give one ppiece of advice...DO NOT
PUBLISH !

IF you publish it is public. This means it cannot be patented. No-one else
will be able to patent it either, but without the protection of the patent
language, they have only to modify their description of it to patent it....



To patent something it must have

1) Novelty
2) Utility
3) Uniqueness

It cannot be deduced or anticipated from esiting art and it cannot have
been publicly disclosed.

At least, this is what I have been led to believe by our attorneys, whom ,
of course, I trust implicitly...........

M



At 09:53 AM 7/16/01 -0400, you wrote:
> > In summary, a 'sealed envelope' is now next to useless for getting
> > or challenging a patent in the USA.
> >
>How about getting your work published, does that still prove "prior
>art".  If so how does web publishing apply?  I am mostly interested in
>"defensive patenting" so someone else can't patent my work out from
>under me.
>
>Sherpa Doug
>
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