From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754736AbXFYW4T (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:56:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751987AbXFYW4J (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:56:09 -0400 Received: from mail.blastwave.org ([147.87.98.10]:56412 "EHLO mail.blastwave.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751881AbXFYW4I (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:56:08 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1318 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:56:08 EDT Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:34:05 +0200 From: Attila Kinali To: Graeme Sheppard Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patent or not patent a new idea Message-Id: <20070626003405.c3dceba9.attila@kinali.ch> In-Reply-To: <46803772.7020408@rillion.net> References: <46803772.7020408@rillion.net> Organization: NERV X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.0rc (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:45:22 +1200 Graeme Sheppard wrote: > I am seeking advice on how to proceed. It could be used as a defensive > patent in which case I can email an expert who can file it. If that is the > concept is sound. I am not expecting any royalties from this myself. The > alternative is to dump it here to the LKML. Do what anyone with a little bit of brain would do: publish it[1]! Patenting it and using as defensive patent wont work. Unless you are able to control Saurons Ring. If you want to know more just read up on current patent practice. IEEE has quite a few articles on that issue, i'm sure that ACM and the like should have also a few. Attila Kinali [1] I know of at least one larger company here that stopped issuing patents but publishes its developments in a local newspaper. -- Linux ist... wenn man einfache Dinge auch mit einer kryptischen post-fix Sprache loesen kann -- Daniel Hottinger