Re: Stolen Bike

Paul Boyd wrote:
On 14/05/2006 18:34, Jim Price said,

Wot e said, plus I've always wondered why you can't get a lock made of something not necessarily too strong but hollow, and filled with pressurised inky stuff so that anyone breaking through it will get themselves and the bike covered in it. It could be both light and a serious deterrent.

I should register the idea now, if I were you!! http://www.patent.gov.uk/


To late apart from in the US I'm afraid. Once its publicly disclosed you cannot patent it. The US allows you up to a year after public disclosure to put your patent in.

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Tony

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