[Ti] patenting your idea (was: Poll 19)

[Nathan Chaney]

Trevor, your summation of the patent process is right on.  There is also a
bar on patenting something that has been in public use or on sale for more
than a year, so the AT&T screen someone mentioned earlier could (not
necessarily will) prevent a patent on a folding screen for a laptop.

BTW, is there any way to make my signature appear above quoted text in
Entourage instead of below it?

Nathan
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On 6/11/04 9:17 AM, "Dr. Trevor J. Hutley" <hutley at geneva-link.ch> wrote:

> At 12:32 PM -0500 6/1/04, Kynan Shook wrote:
>> the next design step needs to be is a folding screen
>> 
>> Anyway, I should probably go patent my idea if nobody else has already
> 
> Some kind of folding screen is a good idea.  I think you could also
> use the word extendable.  I think the basic need/idea is to get more
> screen real estate than the outward size would suggest.
> 
> Unfortunately (I am not a patent lawyer, but I am pretty sure that)
> it is not possible to patent an idea, it has to be a novel and useful
> invention that has been reduced to practice, and the patent is the
> disclosure of how you do that, in exchange for which you get the
> exclusive right to practise the invention for 20 years.
> 
> Trevor
> 
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