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RE: Patent fun
From: "Scharf, Stephen " <sscharf1 () bloomberg com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:53:18 -0400
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: MOVITS () BLOOMBERG NET Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:39 AM To: Scharf, Stephen Subject: Re: [Dailydave] Patent fun 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 -- Mordy Ovits Network Security Bloomberg L.P. _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://www.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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