[sdiy] Patents

[Rainer Buchty]

>The thing about writing your idea down and mailing it to yourself is
>actually a way of protecting yourself against having an idea stolen.

Not really.

The post stamp is on front of the envelope. As long as there's no
official seal on the back of the envelope which proves that this
envelope wasn't opened and its contents replaced *after* being received,
the whole effort is lost.

So I'd rather put everything in an envelope together with an official
statement sealed and signed by a notary *and* let that envelope be
offically sealed and signed again.

Should work better in court.

>You can copyright a schematic, but you cannot patent a schematic.
>You can patent a circuit, but you cannot copyright a circuit....

But you could copyright the schematic of your patented circuit :)

Rainer