Re: Patent fun

["STEPHEN SCHARF, BLOOMBERG/ 499 PARK" <SSCHARF1 () bloomberg net>]

Surprising then that the linguists did not own all the inventions. Seems to me
that a profitable enterprise would be to try and re-create scientific proofs
matched to the first letters of x number of words. One could mail out a letter
with 1000 random letters and then create their own prior art for anything if
they were creative enough.

-Stephen
                                                                                
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mordy Ovits  <movits () bloomberg com>
> At:  7/ 2 11:38
>
> On Friday 02 July 2004 07:45 am, dave wrote:
> >  A database app anyone could submit to, which would store and
> > timestamp any idea you wanted to send it, occasionally submitting hashes
> > to the NY Times or at the bottom of mailing list emails (to verify
> > timestamps). However, this database would not be searchable by the
> > public.
>
> Before scientific discovery became public, it was jealously hoarded.  One
> problem the hoarders ran into was that someone else might independently make
> the same discovery.  While they may not have wanted to give away the
> knowledge, they *certainly* didn't want to give a way the fame.  The solution
> they arrived at is similar to your idea.
>
> 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.  Now if anyone were to lay claim to the idea,
> letting the cat out of the bag, the former person would publish the original
> paper.  The timestamped hash served as proof that the newly published
> document was not newly written.
>
> Mordy
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