Kenneth Mason Publications Limited

Research Disclosure, or RD, is a defensive publication service that allows you to protect an invention as an alternative to patenting. If you have decided not to patent your invention on the grounds of cost or for any other reason, but you still want to exploit it commercially, you must take some simple steps to protect it. Otherwise you risk the chance that someone else may later patent your invention and so prevent you from exploiting it yourself.

You can protect yourself by publishing (disclosing) your invention as quickly as possible and so establish prior art. This is what RD does, we are the world's industry standard disclosure service. Every month we publish details of many inventions, both in our paper format RD Journal and also in our RD Electronic database. These are then distributed to every major patent office and many libraries worldwide. As RD is distributed to patent offices globally it ensures that, regardless of the different novelty standards of national patent systems, any item published in RD thereafter renders the invention described unpatentable by anyone else.

It's a very simple service to use. You just send us the invention details you wish to disclose, and we publish them in both our paper and electronic RD formats. We charge you a modest one off fee and that is it. You can then rest assured that the patent examiners will see it for decades to come while you concentrate on developing your invention. With the ever-increasing patents fees throughout the world, RD is an economical, easy and highly valuable alternative or, in some cases, addition to patenting.

For more information on Research Disclosure including details of how to submit a disclosure for publication or to get access to back archive please visit the www.researchdisclosure.com website.