Hello,
Some of my inventions can be patended. Mobile TCP is a big one.
Another patentable idea from my IPv5 (IP-FF) protocol stack is a hybrid UniMulticast Routing. Those ideas can be back-ported to IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
I have few ways:
1. Don't patent at all
2. Patent through Open Invention Network (OIN), basically donate patent to Open - Source community
3. Go commercial, and patent it myself. (But I do need to put food on the table, considering I am currently unemployed, but I am not sure this is the correct way to promote Internet innovation, that is supposed to be free. After all my innovation stands on the shoulders of Titans. The original TCP/IP invention by DARPA.). But I don't have the capital to enforce the patents, or to become a patent troll anyway... so perhaps this is not a realistic scenario. Finally I think proprietary Internet technology is a wrong idea.
Questions:
1. Can I submit a patent application, after submitting IETF draft ?
2. Which of the three options would you choose, in my position?
-Alexey Eromenko " Technologov "