Patent if you have commercial interests. Usually if you build a product or
want to make money from sueing others whom you expect to build something
similar in the future. Or sell your patent to someone who will.
Otherwise: Do not simply "not patent", but "publish" your ideas to create
prior art that makes it more difficult for others to later patent the same
idea. There are even dedicated sites purely for that purpose.
When you do so, include all possible and impossible names under which someone
might look for the idea. And all (im)possible option and variations of your
idea. Makes it a lot easier to find it and use it to fight later patents.
Btw: In Europe you can fight in the courts released patents anonymously. That makes
it a lot more attractive for competing companies to fight out patent problems there.
I guess they had to do some job creation program for lawyers given the lead the US
has in the litigation market.
Cheers
Toerless
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 01:55:38PM +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> 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 "
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