Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Jerry Stuckle wrote in news:m3orvu$d93$1@dont-
email.me:

In the United States, it is called "First Inventor to File". You can
find more information at
http://www.uspto.gov/aia_implementat...t_inventor.jsp.


The main thing I need to know now is: can nothing but a full patent protect
my own work from being effectively satolen from the instant I put it in the
public domain, leaving me with absolutely no right to distribute or profit
from it in any way at all?

A patent alone protects nothing.

I takes:

A) A legally defendable patent.

B) A smart and well payed lawyer.

The patent mearly provides probative evidence for your lawyer's arguements
in court.


--
Jim Pennino