Klarinet Archive - Posting 000092.txt from 2000/08

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] patents
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 22:45:12 -0400

That'd be fine, but doesn't it cost several thousand dollars to get a patent?
The search for prior art sounds like a lot of work if I don't pay a patent
attorney to do it. If I can just publicize the idea in such a way that nobody
else can claim it as theirs, then I wouldn't have to worry about prior art
and about whether my idea even qualifies as patentable. I just want to get on
with making the thing.

--Doug

>The safest bet would be to patent and charge a zero dollar amount to use.

>> I'm coming up with ideas for improved keywork that I think might be
>> patentable, but my intention is for them to be available for anyone to
>use.
>> What would it take to make them public and keep anyone else from patenting
>> them? Would putting some drawings up on a web site and mentioning the URL
>on
>> Klarinet be enough?
>>
>> --Doug
>> ----------------------------
>> Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears

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