>> How can I give my thoughts, ideas, knowledge to public for free with >> all freedom, with a protection from patent from someone?
>There are multiple forms of prior art that prevents a particular process >from being patented. If you have ideas, publish them publicly. This is >called defensive publication I believe that this mechanism works in the US but there are legal problems with this approach in EU member states. The patent laws in the US and EU differ in how they approach subjects which have been published - in the EU states, for some classes of products/processes, publishing the idea could prevent the process/product from being patentable. But I am not entirely sure about this. So it is best to check with a patent lawyer. Also now software patents are unenforceable in some countries in the world. Prem _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
