Re: Patent fun

[dave <dave () immunitysec com>]

Right, but that doesn't help bobsfish.com when some SCO sues them for 
patent violation. What would help them would being able to go to EFF and 
say "Hey, I'm being SCOed for this patent, can you invalidate it?" and 
EFF saying "Yes." At which point the SCOer has wasted 25K (or however 
much they paid) for their patent.

-dave


Mordy Ovits wrote:

> 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
>  


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