On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:45:22 +1200 Graeme Sheppard <nodes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am seeking advice on how to proceed. It could be used as a defensive > patent in which case I can email an expert who can file it. If that is the > concept is sound. I am not expecting any royalties from this myself. The > alternative is to dump it here to the LKML. Do what anyone with a little bit of brain would do: publish it[1]! Patenting it and using as defensive patent wont work. Unless you are able to control Saurons Ring. If you want to know more just read up on current patent practice. IEEE has quite a few articles on that issue, i'm sure that ACM and the like should have also a few. Attila Kinali [1] I know of at least one larger company here that stopped issuing patents but publishes its developments in a local newspaper. -- Linux ist... wenn man einfache Dinge auch mit einer kryptischen post-fix Sprache loesen kann -- Daniel Hottinger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html