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From: dougf@lcuxlm.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.misc
Subject: Re: patents -- (disclosure)
Message-ID: <1388@lcuxlm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 13:56:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: lcuxlm.1388
Posted: Fri Oct  2 13:56:13 1987
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Keywords: patent
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In article <1329@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM>, dennis@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM (Dennis Foster x5739) writes:
]In article <2411@calmasd.GE.COM> jnp@calmasd.GE.COM (John Pantone) writes:
]>
]>One, commonly used, method for "proving" the date of invention is to
]>document the invention and mail it to yourself (postmark).  Leave the
]>envelope un-opened.
]> 
]Gosh, I think I'll mail myself some envelopes (unsealed of course) to
]get them postmarked today.  Then, when something comes along that I
]want to be the inventor of, I'll write a description of it and put it
]into one of the envelopes and seal it.  Incontrovertible evidence that
]the invention was mine!  :-) :-) :-)

I think that the idea is to write the address on the *back* of the envelope
and put the stamp so that it covers the seal.
-- 
	doug foxvog	...allegra!lcuxlj!dougf	[Please use lcuxlj not lcuxlm]
			If only Bell Labs agreed with my opinion...
NSA: names of CIA agents in NRO working on TEMPEST encrypted above.  Drug
	dealing terrorists assassinated for planned hijacking.