More patent thoughts

Hey all,

I should also mention that if you do invent something like
a tuning method and then publish an article about it,
offer it for sale, or even describe it on the tuning list,
then you have 365 days to apply for a patent. If you do
not patent it within 365 days, you give it up forever.
It does not matter what country you publish in either.

However by publishing and then NOT patenting, you also
prevent big corporations from stealing your idea (though
they will try to do so anyway if your idea has any
commercial value) and of course preserve for posterity the
source of your invention.

This is why you sometimes get asked to sign a
nondisclosure agreement -- if a inventor shows you his
invention you might be able to later claim that he was
publically publishing his invention and therefore you
could thwart his patent attempts if it is determined that
his talk with you was either a public description or an
offer of sale. So nondisclosure agreements are real
important for your own protection if you have any designs
on possibly licensing or patenting your new tuning method.
If you don't care about that, then publishing publically
and deliberately not getting a patent is probably the best
way to go. Or you could keep it a 'trade secret' and tell
no one the secret tuning methods you are using that is
making your music align peoples chakras, get the energy
unblocked from along their meridians and curing their
diseases. (All of which can be accomplished with the right
tuning & compositional ability.)

- Jeff

--- In tuning@y..., "J Scott" <xjscott@e...> wrote:

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> Hey all,
>
> I should also mention that if you do invent something like
> a tuning method and then publish an article about it,
> offer it for sale, or even describe it on the tuning list,
> then you have 365 days to apply for a patent. If you do
> not patent it within 365 days, you give it up forever.
> It does not matter what country you publish in either.

Hi Jeff...

Actually, I am MUCH more interested in copyrighting my MUSIC than in
any patent of a "tuning method." And, most of my music *is*
copyrighted and licensed by ASCAP.

Tuning methods come and go, you know...
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Joseph Pehrson