All about alt.inventors: (Copyright 1994 by siproj and may be reprinted for no cost with written permission only by non-profit groups.) Version 0.11.15.94 Nov. 1994 1. Introduction 2. General overview 3. Main points of discussion. 4. Related Newsgroups to alt.inventors and how they relate. 5. Current FAQ Status 6. World Wide Web Resources for Inventors (Updated) 7. Patent Attorney's / Searchers / Marketing e-mail directory 8. Special Services and Information locations, e-mail etc. 9. Anything else? ............................................................ 1. Introduction This group is a focus center for those interested in all phases of the invention process. After the proposal was posted, several parties seem to have something positive to say about getting a group started just for Inventors and those interested in Invention. ............................................................ 2. General overview This is for those inventors trying to buck the odds or wishing to show prior art to stop patents from being misappropriated by nefarious organizations doing things like patenting software techniques et. al. ............................................................ 3. Main points of discussion. The main points of discussion approved within alt.inventors: A. To be a useful forum to get Inventors into a postive light. B. To promote First to Invent support to protect the independent inventor. Status of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) movements on this subject will be monitored here as much as possible. Stay tuned! C. To screen carefully list companies seeking outside technology and outlining the procedures for submission to their organization. Also a screen out list of NOT INVENTED HERE companies so that those outfits do not waste your time with an approach to them! D. To discuss techniques in researching, developing, filing, patenting $'s, marketing, getting renewals etc. E. To openly discuss prior art where applicable, especially in software. F. To consider tools and tricks of the trade, e.g. stereolithography. G. To locate competent counsel, searchers, associated services. H. To locate Internet invention services and resources. I. To announce at one's own risk their ideas for prior art declaration! (this is a public forum and giving away your ideas in it may affect your ability to file for and get approval of a patent at all in the U.S. and foreign countries. Only do so if the idea is to be placed into the public domain or your patent advisor/attorney says so and you are willing to assume risk!) J. To allow announcements of inventors filings being available for license! Such Press Releases should be in an abstract form of less than 2,000 characters per invention, lengthy items should have pointers for ftp or e-mail requests to keep bandwidth requirements down. Patents being posted should pose little risk despite foreign first to file regulation. The reasoning is that extensive efforts already in progress by overseas organizations to monitor all public disclosures made at the PTO exist anyway. Internet posts mean little in contrast to such a concerted effort by those foreign interests obtain leverage in the patent arena. K. To hold announcements of meetings and conferences specifically useful to inventors/innovators or those that wish to find and pay them for their efforts! L. To post filing forms templates or where to ftp them. This of course is all subject to change because an astute inventor is the delta force of an overworked word CHANGE! ............................................................ 4. Related Newsgroups to alt.inventors and how they relate. Related groups that may have material of interest and may be likely to cross-post in certain instances, and definition of what kind of messages should not be crossposted include: alt.inventors only wants notices from this group of developments no debates please! comp.patents Discussing patents of computer technology. alt.inventors only has interests in patents and trademarks for singular inventions, no copyright or performance rights please! misc.int-property Discussion of intellectual property rights. alt.inventors leaves finger painting out of our discussions. misc.creativity Promoting the use of creativity in all human alt.inventors interest is with raising capital of all phases but less interest in day-to-day operations environments, like transactions. That may be important after the invention is being market then directly read and post to that group and leave the barcodes for DOS etc. out. misc.entrepreneurs Discussion on operating a business. These groups may have helpful information, however crossposts regarding patent/trademark law issues that directly apply to the inventor are solicited exclusive to all other issues of law. misc.legal Legalities and the ethics of law. misc.legal.computing Discussing the legal climate of the computin misc.legal.moderated All aspects of law. (Moderated) Generally to broad when it includes everything from physics of magnets but strays from the main idea to help inventors work through IDEAS! Funding may be important, but only in the context of the invention process. Methods that mean something to getting through a lab situation that involves invention only are welcome! sci.misc Short-lived discussions ... in the sciences sci.research Research methods, funding, ethics, and ... ............................................................ 5. Current FAQ Status Yes but this will is being built to include as much interesting and valuable information as possible. World Wide Web Pages, FTP sites, Telnet search services are all sought to include in an FAQ for alt.inventors. Please e-mail them to siproj@rci.ripco.com with the subject FAQ Submission alt.inventors, you will be credited unless you do not want to be. Please state if your source, like if it is from some other FAQ. ............................................................ 6. World Wide Web Resources for Inventors ............................................................ These are World Wide Web locations of Interest to the Inventive: The newest entries at the top of this list, such as this: Mosaic site with 500 MB of PTO & patenting information, including the beginning of an Internet site that provides full searching capabilities of the PTO's patent text databases for free. Beyond lots of documents, the current Mosaic site allows people to retreive patent titles in any class/subclass by clicking through a few screens. The patent title data goes from 3500000 to Dec 1993. (the Sun servers are going through special upgrades from Sun, so crash from time to time, so if your http request fails, try a little later in the day) with the following top level menu items: The Mosaic site is at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html This patent home page has both US and foreign patent information links... http://iac.net/~miller The United States Patent and Trademark Office {USPTO} http://www.uspto.gov The Master page for Inventors found thus far on the net... http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/Departments/Rewired/Re-WIRED.html Inventor directions for success... http://www.issi.com/misc/articles/Scenes.html Library Invention??? http://is.rice.edu/~riddle/dl94.html The Lego Home Page??? rec.toys.lego FAQ http://legowww.itek.norut.no/faq/FAQ.html A game called Nomic oriented towards Invention -> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~s2119737/nomic-faq.html Ok, well this is an interesting system invented for handling data remotely from satellites, general interest. http://guinan.gsfc.nasa.gov/AIS.html ............................................................ 7. Patent Attorney's / Searchers / Marketing e-mail directory The Patent Attorney's e-mail directory portion of the alt.inventors FAQ is for informational purposes only to help direct inventors to patent resources (such as counsel). This is a pure list only, like a phone book, with the exception that it allows inventors to locate resources more specific to what they are doing (i.e. if someone invents a new type of concrete then perhaps counsel with a materials physics background will be more helpful than someone doing mostly software patents). Abstracts of practices with more detail will be forthcoming. Name e-mail some specialties (if any abbreviated) snail mail address and phone/fax if available. Follow the pattern set forth below please at the head of the e-mail message for updates. E-mail additions, comments, corrections and updates to: siproj@rci.ripco.com Note this list is growing! Greg Aharonian (news service) Internet Patent News Service P.O. Box 404 E-mail: srctran@world.std.com Belmont, MA 02178 Phone: 617-489-3727 G. Peter Albert, Jr. (patent attorney) Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd. Sears Tower - Suite 8660 E-mail: palbert@interaccess.com 233 South Wacker Drive Phone: 312-993-0080 Chicago, IL 606060-6501 Fax: 312-993-0633 John B. Berryhill, Ph.D. (patents, electrical engineering) Patent Agent Dann, Dorfman, Herrell, and Skillman E-mail: berryh@genie.slhs.udel.edu 1601 Market St., Suite 720 Philadelphia, PA 19103 Terry Carroll (patent law) Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum E-mail: carrolltj@cgc.com Ronald Coslick (patents & trademarks, contracts, searches) Patent Attorney 110 North Peyton St. E-mail: coslick@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu Alexandria, Virginia 22314 Phone: 703-549-1521 Peter Gordon (registered patent agent) Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks 600 Atlantic Ave. E-mail: pgordon@world.std.com Boston, MA 02210 Phone: 617-720-3500 Fax: 617-720-2441 Carl Oppedahl (physics, electrical engineering, math, software) Oppedahl & Larson (specializes in Intellectual Property Law) E-mail: oppedahl@patents.com Marina T. Larson (technical in chemical and biological sciences) Oppedahl & Larson (specializes in Intellectual Property Law) E-mail: larson@patents.com John W. L. Ogilvie (Registered Patent Attorney, software expert) Madson & Metcalf 170 South Main, #950 E-mail: mm@utw.com Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 Phone: 801-537-1700 Fax: 801-537-1799 Carl E. Person (intellectual property attorney, infringement litigator) Practicing Attorney 325 W 45 Street E-mail: carlpers@ix.netcom.com New York NY 10036-3803 Phone: 212-307-4444 Fax: 212-307-0247 Steven G. Saunders, Esq. (support in start-up companies, no biotech) 121B Tremont Street E-mail: saunders@acs.bu.edu Brighton, Ma. 02135 Phone: 617-783-5755 Fax: 617-562-1102 Adrian A. Williams (consultant, marketing and media, searcher) R & D New Products and Services E-mail: Adrian20@ix.netcom.com P. O. Box 10789 Burbank, CA 91510-0789 Total patent resources @ e-mail count thus far = 12 ............................................................ 8. Special Services and Information locations, e-mail etc. a. Greg Aharonian Internet Patent News Service e-mail contact -> srctran@world.std.com Greg Aharonian Internet Patent News Service P.O. Box 404 Belmont, MA 02178 and/or call me at 617-489-3727 b. Book resources. Title, Author Publisher, ISBN Number if available Price, other information 1. Inventing for Fun and Profit, Jacob Rabinow San Francisco Press $18.75 hard cover 2. How to be a successful inventor (seeking information) $20 approximately... c. Magazines for, about and of interest to inventors: Magazine Title, Phone Number Publisher and/or address, ISSN Number if available Price, other information 1. Inventors' Digest, 1-800-838-8808, 1-800-525-5885 American Inventors Magazine 4850 Galley Road, Ste. 209 Colorado Springs, CO 80915 - call - , Joann Hayes 2. Midnight Engineering, 1-719-254-4558 Fax 1-719-254-4558 1700 Washington Avenue Rocky Ford, CO 81067 - call - , William Gates 3. Extraordinary Science, 1-719-475-0918 Fax 1-719-475-0582 International Tesla Society, ISSN #1043-3716 P. O. Box 5636 Colorado Springs, CO 80931 $25 annually membership with subscription, J. W. McGinnis -- Internet e-mail tesla@cscns.com Additional phone number: 1-800-397-0137 Radio Show 5065 KHz on shortwave Sunday 10:00 PM Central Time (Note: alt.inventors expands beyond what Tesla or any competing inventor may have done. Please refrain from debates, but indepth information is welcome, opinions are for other net areas!) ............................................................ 9. Anything else? Well some system administrators may not have alt.inventors on their system. Simply request it directly from them in should be described as: alt.inventors a discussion area for inventors, many areas! This group is not intended for any other hierarchy for many reasons, like it does not fit well anywhere else and the suggestions for sci.* were lacking at best. Well keep it up is the most common thing heard. Everyone appreciates the technology we have today for the most part, few wish to reward those that make it come true. My thanks to many contributors, helpers, so many forall... jamcorp@world.std.com (Jon Priluck) marcos@dogen.persona.com (Marcos J. Polanco) ... others of course will be added ... Suggestions other that persistence, uh watch out for the sharks and snakes! END of VERSION 0.11.15.94 ............................................................ E-mail comments to: siproj@rci.ripco.com ............................................................