Quoting Ruben J=F6nsson <ruben@pp.sbbs.se>:

> Assuming that this was a new patentable idea to start with you have   =

> effectevly
> just made it unpatentable (is that a word?) by making it publicly known.
>

Is this something new (as of within the past few years)?  AFAIR, the  =

USPTO says that you have one year *after* an idea is made public to  =

patent it.  That is of course, assuming that no one has used the idea  =

in that time.




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