Alexey since you already published them I don't think you can patent them. Behcet On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 5:55 AM, Alexey Eromenko <al4321@xxxxxxxxx> 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 "