From Andrew.Weaver@tecnomen.fi  Mon Feb 12 11:24:53 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:24:53 +0200
From: Andrew Weaver Andrew.Weaver@tecnomen.fi
Subject: [Patents] How to prevent a patent

Am I right in assuming that all I need to do to get a patent (assuming no
prior art) is to describe it and apply to the relevent offices? If so, how
can I "publish" an idea that I currently have in order that nobody would be
able to patent the idea?

I ask this because I recently described my idea to some persons and I would
like to make sure that they do not patent it - that is, I would like to
prevent anyone from patenting it including myself.

Kind Regards

Andy Weaver





