Hi Walter,

Couldn't one just publish the idea in a magazine, with the author
clearly listed? I thought that such a thing would clearly establish
who originated the idea, unless someone could show that they came up
with it before then. Even so, they would have to make such a claim
within one year of the magazine publishing date, I think.

Sean


On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> wrote:
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> In the mid 70's we had a solution to this case. I worked on
> a bunch of barcode projects that for various reasons we wanted
> put into the public domain. We did not want the technology to
> be owned by any single commercial entity. At the time it cost
> about $200 to file a patent disclosure. We then had some time
> to complete the filing for a patent which we never intended to
> do
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> The patent disclosure was a very public way to establish prior
> art that the patent office could not ignore. To do this now
> is would be quite expensive.
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> Regards,
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