From phm@a2e.de Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:42:12 +0100 (CET)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:42:12 +0100 (CET)
From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
Subject: [Patents] prior art time stamping

> How do I prove that I have "invented" anything before they?

Write down your ideas, put them on a website and get them mirrored
to ffii.org.  Under

	http://swpat.ffii.org/pruci/

we are documenting any relevant ideas and delivering them to the
Bavarian State Library every two months, so they get a time stamp.

Our next CD-based prior art documentation is due next week. 

This is just a beginning.

For legal purposes, anything that is accessible to the public is a
publication.

Of course this doesn't help you to fight already existing patents.  It
is only a way to prepare against future patent attacks.

--
phm

	





