>If You publish something in a newspaper,
>it's not possible to have a patent later.
>Because publishing it makes it general knowledge.

35 USC 10 sec. 102:

A person shall be entitled to a patent unless - 

     (b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication 
         in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this
         country, more than one year prior to the date of the application 
         for patent in the United States, or 

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Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

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