Comment Re:Mail it (Score 1) 467
Mailing stuff doesn't work for patents or for copyrights.
In the case of copyrights it's a foolish thing to do when it's relatively cheap and easy to register your works with the Library of Congress. A court will have absolutely no problem accepting the registration as proof of dates and copyright ownership. The same court will simply laugh at your post marked envelopes. If you are a US citizen who wants to sue in court for infringement, you have to register your work anyways.
In the case of patents, the only conceivable situation in which the mailing trick could work is if there is a dispute between two would be patentees about who conceived the idea first.
But the evidence of a sealed postmarked envelope just isn't going to be considered credible.
In the case of copyrights it's a foolish thing to do when it's relatively cheap and easy to register your works with the Library of Congress. A court will have absolutely no problem accepting the registration as proof of dates and copyright ownership. The same court will simply laugh at your post marked envelopes. If you are a US citizen who wants to sue in court for infringement, you have to register your work anyways.
In the case of patents, the only conceivable situation in which the mailing trick could work is if there is a dispute between two would be patentees about who conceived the idea first.
But the evidence of a sealed postmarked envelope just isn't going to be considered credible.
