Applying for a patent is best done by a patent attorney or patent agent,
especially if it is your first patent.
It's expensive.
Applying for and prosecuting a patent by yourself is possible but is not for
the faint-hearted.
In either case, I recommend "Patent It Yourself" by David Pressman.
http://www.nolo.com/lawstore/products/product.cfm/ObjectID/139AEDE9-69A0-4810-A7A87D2AD5422664
In the U.S. you can apply for a patent up to one year after you make it
public. However, in the rest of the world you cannot get a patent if you
have gone public before filing the application.
In the U.S. you can file a Provisonal Application for a Patent that will
preserve your rights.
You can read a short introduction to the patent process in an article at:
www.jmargolin.com/todo/pap.htm (I wrote it.)
(And don't go to any invention company that advertises. Think of them as the
Spammers of the Inventor Community. )
Jed Margolin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hadmut Danisch" <hadmut(_at_)danisch(_dot_)de>
To: <ietf-mxcomp(_at_)imc(_dot_)org>; <asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 4:24 AM
Subject: [Asrg] Patenting HOWTO/FAQ ?
Hi,
can anyone recommend any FAQ or HOWTO or a book about
how to apply for a patent in the USA?
I have done some further development of mechanisms
which protect against spam, fraud, phishing etc. and
improve e-mail for commercial and private use,
but I do not want to repeat the same mistake as with
RMX again. I'd like to protect against plagiarism
and especially that kind of capture we've seen from
Microsoft. I'd therefore like to apply for a patent
and make the mechanism available for free for the
open source community (like GPL), but to take license
fees from commercial vendors like Microsoft. Beat 'em
with their own weapons.
regards
Hadmut
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