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RE: (ET) RE: Elec Tract Website
- Subject: RE: (ET) RE: Elec Tract Website
- From: "Bruce E Conner" <BConnor nefn com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:49:25 -0500
- Sender: owner-elec-trak cosmos5 phy tufts edu
Once you have published (as in, made public) your design, it is public
domain and cannot be patented without having some sort of substantive,
non-trivial, non-obvious changes made to the design. A patent is a form of
publication with protections. So feel free to put your design out there.
Bruce Conner
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allan [SMTP:allanhv worldnet att net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 9:30 AM
> To: elec-trak mailing list
> Subject: Re: (ET) RE: Elec Tract Website
>
> I plan to release any design I come up with to whomever wants it. As is,
> no
> warranty, etc., of course. I even thought that if I get PCB's made up I
> could
> sell them at cost to anyone who wants to build up their own. (The volume
> would
> make it cheaper for me, too.)
>
> I don't know much about patents, but I would be afraid that if the design
> were
> not patented it could be pateneted out from under us by someone else.
> LINUX has
> an advantage in that copyrights are simpler/cheaper to get than patents.
> Also,
> I would guess that many of the people on this list who would be
> interested
> in
> working on a design have signed agreements with thier employers giving
> the
> employers rights any designs. Anyone care to comment on this?
>
> Allan
>
> LarryE3 aol com wrote:
>
> > Sure hope I'm using the correct e-mail address. Let me know if I
> > should
> be
> > using something else.
> >
> > The recent comments about updating the Elec Trak series with modern
> controls
> > seems like a common idea. Maybe we should start a web-site specific to
> a
> > design team of everybody interested and with everybody contributing a
> small
> > part to come up with a design and prototype hardware. The results
> > could
> be
> > produced and marketed something like LINUX source code.
> >
> > Any thoughts or comments?
> >
> > Larry Elliott
> > Idaho
>