[Patents] How to prevent a patent

[Bernard Lang Bernard.Lang@inria.fr]

Publishing on this list would already do, I believe ... 

and on some forum that is archived.

BL


On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:24:53PM +0200, Andrew Weaver wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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