Re: Patent fun

[Lee Brotherston <lee () nerds org uk>]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:38:44AM -0400, Mordy Ovits wrote:
> The author wrote up his discovery in full detail.  Then he "one-way
> hashed" it by taking the first letter of each word and writing them
> in sequence.  This created a document significantly smaller,
> consisting of a nonsensical bunch of letters.  He mailed this
> "proof" far and wide, so as to "timestamp" it and put the prior in
> prior art.

I seem to remember a while back that some unsigned bands did something
similar to protect themselves from their music being duplicated by
someone else, and thus loosing out on royalty profits...

Making a copy of their music to tape or cd, and then mailing recorded
delivery (sorry that's a UK term, not sure of the appropriate
internationalism) to themselves, thus having a sealed container which
was "timestamped".  This could then be kept in a safe place until such
time as the material was called into dispute, at which time a
solicitor could open it, and it could then be used as evidence.

  Lee

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Lee Brotherston - <lee () nerds org uk>
Jar Jar Binks Makes The Ewoks Look Like Shaft
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