The IBM Disclosure Journal (DJ) is useful to IBM, which is not at all to say that something like it would be equally useful to an ingenious blacksmith having [much] more limited resources..
IBM retains---pays for the immediate availability to it of--- the best legal counsel of all sorts, inclusive of patent counsel; and the question whether a defensive patent or publication in the DJ is the appropriate device for ensuring that some 'invention' will be protected appropriately is better left to these counsel than to kibitzers. There is indeed no generic, non-contextual answer to such questions. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
