You cannot tell them what is patentable and what is not; they are the ones to decide that. But you can disclose products/ideas/etc in a journal that relinquishes your rights to patent that idea and still protects your rights to use it (because it also prevents anyone else from patenting it too). I cannot remember which journal or publication it is that this is done in.
I know of this procedure because Xerox had developed the laser printer at PARC and the powers-that-be decided it was a worthless idea and disclosed this idea to prevent anyone else from developing the patent for this. Of course, laser printers turned out to be a billion dollar a year business for them... Frank Sebastian Vollnhals wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Alternately, you may publicly document all ideas to prevent new patents > > from being accepted. And the documentation of those ideas must be in > > forums that the patent office will notice in evaluating claims... > > Otherwise, it will require litigation to expose your work as prior art. > > (Meaning, i don't think the patent office will search JDEV or other > > online forums to test claims prior to making its decisions.) > > is there any possibility to tell the patent office, that something is not > patentable? (for example by expressively "not-patenting" an idea, software, > etc) > > Sebastian > > - -- > \|/ ____ \|/ | sebastian vollnhals 5D0D C03D > '@"/ ., \"@' web | http://home.yetzt.org 0DDB 2200 > /_| \_ / |_\ jabber | [EMAIL PROTECTED] FEB5 C7C9 > \__U_/ fon | +49 162 9025114 7B5A F013 > don't panic! gpgkey | 0x6F65196C | fingerprint: AF16 CA8E > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/BXYme1rwE68Wyo4RAgb3AJ9Da4evaad8OzYDYyak/I94yUbrhwCfSh1l > wOSCXwW0eb+yNmuM65nYG8U= > =h46o > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
