From: nospam@hotmail.com   
      
   "Björn Felten"  wrote in message   
   news:TeUHe.143168$dP1.497045@newsc.telia.net...   
   > > You need to patent this   
   >   
   >     Too late now that he's already published it.  8-)   
      
   I have one year time to patent it in the USA ;)   
      
   Has anyone of you in these newsgroups ever filed for a patent ?   
      
   I really like my marker idea... etc...   
      
   Data:   
   dddddeeeeefff   <- bits of different fields d, e, f   
   Marker:   
   000010001001 <- markers to identify fields.   
      
   Finally these bits are interleaved:   
   d0d0d0d0d1e0e0e0e1f0f0f1   
      
   It seems nothing like this has ever be done before.   
      
   The only ones which came close where IBM... 1401 machine...   
      
   It used 1 bit per BCD decimal digit. Something like that.   
      
   If somebody is going to be filthy rich from my marker idea for bits... it   
   might as well be me the original inventor ;) :)   
      
   However I have never ever patented anything before =D   
      
   And I don't life in the United States of America...   
      
   I life in the Netherlands/Europe.   
      
   So... I am reading this website:   
      
   "How to get a patent" :)   
      
   http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/howtopat.htm   
      
   It says:   
      
   1. File a Utility Patent Application.   
   2. File a Design Patent Application.   
   3. File a Plant Patent Application.   
   4. File a Patent Application electronically.   
      
   Which one fits best ?   
      
   Somewhere else it said the patent needs to be filled in the USA.   
      
   First I thought this ment, maybe I need to live in the USA ?   
      
   But it doesn't say that does it ? Maybe it just means it needs to be   
   "filled" = requested in the USA ?   
      
   So can anybody in the whole world ask/fill for a patent in the USA ? ;) :)   
      
   That would be cool =D   
      
   Bye,   
     Skybuck.   
      
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