FR2557338A1 - Method of ad-hoc presentation of warning markings intended to reserve protection of intellectual rights attached to prints of industrial or architectural plans, etc., and collection of consumable means for affixing these markings - Google Patents

Abstract

Method of presenting notices, applied - with the aim of reserving rights in the question of intellectual protection - on the blueprints serving for printing of industrial, architectural plans etc., the said method being characterised in that it consists in composing an overall composite formula adapted to the plurality of situations to be covered, in breaking up the said overall formula into several segments 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 printed on separate media, in putting together sets of such media containing the whole of these segments, in entrusting these sets to the draughtsmen, from which the latter can successively: select the segment or segments suitable for each plan whose blueprint is to be laid out, and apply at least one of these segments on the blueprint by means of its medium, owing to at least one operation which is separate from that of the layout of the title block of the blueprint.

Description

 We know that the industrial, architect's plans, etc. are almost always drawn up on translucent layers which constitute matrices from which the drawing shops of the design offices publish diazeic copies under extremely practical conditions of price. and speed.

 The multiplication and dispersion of these prints in which the fruits of studies which are always costly are thus materialized has, for a long time, led those responsible for these studies to seek to preserve their intellectual property as best as possible.

This is how, at present, we try to ensure this preservation by a mention (or notice) of warning and reserve of property rights, carried on the layers and, therefore, reported on the prints correspondents. This mention, thus visibly present on these prints, has in principle the double interest
- on the one hand to constitute a measure of legal scope
- and, on the other hand and above all, to operate a deterrent "to the
source from
. very many people who tend to dif
to shoot without much discernment the prints of the plans of
their business, most often by simple negligence,
. and of those who, having received these prints, tend to
use the substance without too many scruples, the more
often out of ignorance of the rules of law.

 Experience has shown, in fact, that it is due to these negligence or ignorance that almost all of the countless "small leaks" and misappropriation of "gray matter" come into play, thanks to which volatilize in practice the fruits of the ingenuity of innovative companies.

 It is indeed a fact that these small leaks, multiplied ad infinitum on a daily basis and more often than not justified in the name of the right to "free trade" by those who profit from them, constitute a perverse handicap for innovative companies. and formidable, much more difficult to master than direct copying or counterfeiting, we organized on a large scale.

 The Directorates of these companies, most often of medium size or even just emerging, are therefore very anxious to ensure the presence of this kind of information on the layers coming out of their design or drawing offices.

 Large companies even provide in this respect, for these mentions, relatively elaborate formulas which are directly printed on the blank layers supplied to their designers, at the same time as the classic identification cartridges are printed on these layers in which are intended be housed, in grouped form, all the information completing the drawing (nature of the material, machining tolerances, dates and nature of the modifications, name of the designer, etc., etc.); this is to ensure that such indications are certainly affixed on all layers, as soon as they are supplied to the services which use them to draw up plans, and thus to eliminate once and for all the risk that these mentions are omitted if their apposition is entrusted to the more or less diligent care of these services.

However, it is easy to see that at least 90% of the drawings of plans currently in circulation are devoid of such information. The relative banality of the content of some of these plans does not explain - and in any case does not justify - this laxity which we notice is justly combated by all company management. These
Managers, in particular, are fully aware of the losses of substance caused by the purely gratuitous abandonment to third parties, if not to competitors, of work which necessarily cost something. When the content of the plans cannot therefore Being protected by titles of public order, these Company Departments then become all the more dramatically concerned with ensuring this protection, by suitable precautions, that this content is, more precisely, more volatile.

 However, as indicated above, experience has shown that this critical concern of company management proves to be impossible to satisfy in practice; indeed, the chronic failures of attempts to set up disciplines for affixing this kind of information within companies are essentially due to a set of factors which can all be reduced to one: passivity - if not hostility - of the "performers" (designers, etc.) with regard to the measures which tend to subject them to dealing with warnings themselves on their layers, little warnings pleasant to affix and of which they do not grasp most of the time either the interest or the scope. As it seems illusory, in practice, to try to ensure this affixing other than with the cooperation of these performers, the problem arises so as seemingly hopeless.

All these reasons for passivity and hostility, quite subtle and confused, can in fact be roughly analyzed as follows
- indifference of the designer to this category of superior interests
laughers of the company, which can seem very distant
his own, especially in most of the
large catches,
- the need for the means provided for the affixing of
formulas (stamps, labels),
- reluctance to affix stamped inks in ink (bavu
res staining the drawing),
- defective aesthetic presentation of the statements, which
the quality of architectural drawings or industrial parts
trielles, always executed with characteristic care
that can be found in all design offices or
sin,
- frequent perplexities of designers or engineers
of studies, as to the need to affix a mention which is
almost without significance when it is general and summary, and
which can obviously strike certain interlocutors of the
company (clients) when it is specifically severe and redi
for suppliers,
- etc., etc....

We therefore understand that at present and because of the real "wall" which seems to oppose any "relatively accessible" solution,
Managers of companies aware of the priority of the protection problem resolve the latter by means of a compromise: namely a "notice", fairly "bastard", set up on all the layers at the same time as the cartridge (this besides only in companies that agree to take the trouble to impose this practice of systematic protection)
- either outside said cartridge and, in this case, without limitation
(relative) text length,
- either inside said cartridge and, therefore, in a rather limited manner
tée, if one takes into account the reserves of boxes or space
priority items that must be reserved within said buses
keys for technical or identification information that
these must necessarily include, depending on the
requirements specific to each company.

 The safest - but most expensive - formula is therefore to have everything printed (frame, cartridge and protective notices) on the blank layers which are supplied to the design offices for drawing up their plans. However, the layers provided with the formulas thus rigidly adopted for studies cannot be used for the establishment of ordinary plans with strict commercial vocation (intended to be given to customers for example). In this way, the layers thus pre-printed must be the subject of a restricted and controlled use inside the company and this control raises, in turn, a certain number of practical problems.

 The least bad formula, that is to say that exploiting as far as possible a useful contribution from the designers, consists in turn to have them affixed, when they put in a blank layer on their drawing board, a cartridge (most often self-adhesive and dorsal) in a box which is "slipped" a mention of relatively banal and limited protection.

 This process of affixing by the designer himself of the desired formula, since it is inside the cartridge which is necessary for him anyway, turns out to be quite practical. This process could even - theoretically everything at least - allow the designer, by simply making available to him a collection of cartridges containing diversified warning texts, to qualify each plan and measure the scope of the warning, by choosing the appropriate cartridge in depending on the content of the latter.

 In fact, however, one notes that one never thought of putting into practice such a process of affixing cartridges with diversified mentions, probably precisely because obtaining the competition, a little bit personal, of the designers comes up against the reasons already explained above. In addition, the cartridges are always affixed in a corner of the blank layers before the placement of these on the drawing board, that is to say even before any beginning of any work; so, without even dwelling on the reluctance that designers already manifest in a natural way, we understand that we cannot expect each of them to qualify, by a cartridge with an appropriate mention, the degree of protection necessary for a plan that has not yet started, nor that it replaces, during work, a cartridge with which it may already have started to fill the boxes! The handling of the large labels which bear them - as well as the possible replacement of these cartridges during the evolution of a study - cannot in fact be carried out under practical conditions.

Consequently, the faculty of "personalization of the degree of protection of the plans" procured by an extension of this mode of installation of the cartridges (affixed by the designer and not by printing) is never exploited. At most we see that the cartridge of one company is different from that of another, but that it is always the same in each particular company - in any case the word of warning - whatever the destinations of blank layers on which these cartridges are affixed.

We will only point out, for the record, the procedures for affixing warnings or the reservation of rights "stamped" on the prints, that is to say on the plans drawn from these layers:
Experience shows that these procedures are very poorly followed. They never last more than a few weeks when they are intended to be systematic and they are random when they are intended to be selective. On the contrary, they quite often lead to plan exits without protection, while Company Managers are told in the opposite illusion. Since, moreover, the stamp used very quickly tends to get lost (if everyone uses it), we do not even think of providing "collections" of stamps to personalize the warnings according to the content of the plans .

Whatever, in any case, the forms in which these warnings (or notices) are currently presented, it should be noted that these always consist of a single text, whatever sometimes formulated by a lawyer for such or such specific need for a
therefore, a particular company; but the text is always all the more summary - and, / devoid of any real effect - that one seeks to extend the variety of circumstances in which it can be used. In fact precisely, this text is most often banal and quite simply suggested by the supplier of the cartridges which adopts a brief formula "passe-partout" found somewhere and reused from one customer to another.

 It has thus never been proposed to "fragment" - nor therefore to multiply or "dose" - these opinions on the same level. Exceptionally, as indicated above, a "secret" or "confidential" stamp can only be affixed in one or more places in a print run and supplement another notice which may have been conventionally incorporated into the sound cartridge. layer.

It is precisely this idea of "fragmentation" which is at the basis of the present innovation and which makes it possible to solve the apparently insoluble problem mentioned above, namely: lack of being able to have suitable formulas affixed on the plans, either before beginning of a drawing, or afterwards, how can we organize ourselves so that the necessary precautions are taken in the meantime and once and for all?
It thus appeared that, if we fragment this kind of opinion into several "sections", to choose and combine or not between them, we unlock the two "locks" on which we are forced to note that the wishes and the means of each other (Directions and designers) are irreconcilable.

On the one hand, we can both
- widely develop warnings of each type and
give them the desired dissuasive character, without being con
trapped by considerations of size or length
of text
- - and only use, for each layer plan considered, the
sections which are specifically useful for it,
. of its content (structure of the design and distribution of
sensitive elements for the company inside this
last, nature of what is represented, importance of
project for the company, etc ...)
. and its potential recipients (customers, suppliers,
contractual partners, etc.).

Experience shows in this regard that by affixing these various sections, suitably selected, in equally selected locations on the plan, we can better exploit
- the spaces reasonably available on a map (account
given the size to be given to the characters so that they are
readable and the need to make the texts particularly
"salient") i
- depending on the importance (in volume) of the legal texts
necessary for adequate protection.

 On the other hand and above all, this presentation (in sections) of the warning notices removes what has so far been the essential obstacle to obtaining good protection, namely the impossibility of motivating the designers to affix these mentions.

Indeed, as soon as the compact presentations are replaced by fragmented "sections", the task of the designer is no longer lowered to that of a "bumper" subject to discipline. On the contrary, it is up to him to take care and, above all, the power and the "decision" to operate the appropriate mix.
- not only as to the panels to choose
- but also and above all, insofar as it is provided with the
options and convenience of execution required,
. as for the locations in the plan,
. as for the orientation with respect to the elements of the drawing,
. as for the size,
. and as for the repetitions of affixing on the same plane;
- in short as for the "composition" of a visual unit with "interior"
manage "harmoniously with the design, a task that all
designers like to accomplish because it comes from their art, which
essentially proceeds from an aesthetic order.

In addition, these affixing operations can then be performed (and repeated if necessary) at any time, including in successive stages, depending on the mood, inspiration or reflections of the designer throughout the days - or weeks - which he generally devotes to the establishment of each plan.

Furthermore, from the moment when
- the new means (fragmentation of a text which is extracted and
freed from the dimensional "shackles" that a
box reserved in a traditional cartridge, and which can therefore
be more comprehensive while covering a plurality of options)
- provides the desired result (better cooperation of
designer, which has the primary effect of achieving a better
their transfer to the protection statement plans, and for
second effect of achieving better protection of these plans)
- thanks to its function (constitute a "palette" of visual elements
likely to be composed together in harmony with the
drawing), it becomes possible to improve the function and obtain even better results with preferred forms of execution.

 In particular, insofar as the fragmented sections serve to establish a visual composition, it may be desirable to associate them with decorative means, which improves the function ("palette of visual elements") allowing get the result ("designer cooperation"). It is thus possible to associate with these mentions (or with these sections of mentions) illustrations or symbols that the designers can use for the production of these visual compositions.

 These decorative means (illustrations) can also have, according to an improvement of the present innovation, the effect of improving other second, third, etc. results of the desired result.

 Thus, one can take, as a decorative element promoting the artistic interest of the designers, a presentation which gives - also - a "salient" character to the warnings. For example, insofar as the notices must catch the attention of the people called upon to consult the prints of a plan, we can associate with the text sections decorative elements which strike by capturing the glance and which, consequently, improve the protection of plans by better alerting those in whose hands they are intended to pass.

 According to a preferred embodiment of the innovation, which makes it particularly easy to put into practice, the "flaps" of the protective statements to be affixed on the layers are pre-printed on dorsal self-adhesive labels of the type, already familiar to designers, of those which are already used for affixing preprinted cartridges.

 On the one hand, in fact, the use of this additional category of labels does not introduce supply or storage disturbances in the design offices.

On the other hand, from the moment one uses this type of labels for affixing, anywhere on the layers, mentions of intellectual property protection of their content, it becomes possible
- according to an extension which constitutes another improvement of the innovation - to provide on the labels, next to these indications, ranges - or boxes - specially assigned to an extremely simple and easy control of the people in whose hands the prints of these layers will be called upon to circulate after having been given to a third party outside the company; which makes it possible to provide a complementary response - all the more important since the implementation of these zones is extremely simple as a follow-up to innovation - to the frustrations currently experienced by the Management of companies in terms of protecting their plans, as recalled above.

Other characteristics of the innovation will moreover be explained in detail and better understood thanks to the following description of various of its embodiments, simply given by way of example with reference to the appended drawing in which
FIG. 1 is a front view of a traditional industrial layer with its cartridge,
FIG. 2 is an enlargement of the zone of the cartridge of the layer of FIG. 1,
FIGS. 3 and 4 are perspective views, on a larger scale, which illustrate a particular known method of affixing such a cartridge on the back of the layer of FIG. 1,
FIGS. 5 to 9 illustrate the process for the ad hoc presentation of warnings to be shown on a plan,
FIG. 10 illustrates, still from the same perspective, a variant and an extension of this process, relating to the size and dimensions in which the indications are presented,
FIG. 11 illustrates an example of a text area - having a general defensive precautionary character - associated with a symbol and a frame on a self-adhesive label of the type of that of FIGS. 3 and 4,
FIG. 12 illustrates, under the same conditions, another example of a section of text supplemented by blank areas intended for controlling the discounts and the circulation of the drawings of plans,
FIG. 13 schematically shows in plan an assortment of labels grouped together on the board,
FIG. 14 represents, on the scale of FIG. 2, a view of the zone of the cartridge of a plan provided with a label allowing the control of the delivery of a drawing of the plan and the subsequent circulation of the latter ,
finally, FIGS. 15 and 16 represent two variants, in front views, of prints of plan layers having been treated in accordance with the innovation process.

Referring to Figure 1, we can see the conditions
the statements in which the protective statements are currently
industrial property on traditional plans.

In this figure 1, there is shown a conventional layer, blank of
any drawing and consisting of a sheet of translucent paper. This layer
carries a frame 2 which can be
- either preprinted,
- either drawn by the designer, in principle before entering
take his drawing, but quite often also once the
drawing is finished.

Inside frame 2, the layer almost always has a "because
button "3, consisting of a rectangle in which are provided
boxes 4 in which are intended to be reported, in the form
grouped, all the information completing the identification and allowing
the subsequent exploitation of the plan: reference number, identity of the
owner, designer name, material (alloy code for example)
in which the parts shown in the drawing are made, date
and nature of the successive modifications made to the plan, etc., etc.

Generally, these cartridges are, similarly
- either drawn on the layer by the designer,
- either pre-printed at the same time as box 2,
- or, again, prepared in advance in the form of labels im
which the designer then applies to the back of his layer
(as will be explained in more detail below with reference to
in Figures 3 and 4).

The layer that has just been described could not be more classic and the
Figure 1 represents, of course, both the layer itself and a
print which would be made of this layer.

The only difference is that the original translucent layers are
kept in corporate plan libraries while the
prints, made from these layers on opaque bluish, fuchsia or other colored paper, are distributed in the departments to
be operated, either on site or through discounts to third parties
outside the company.

We will now describe in more detail the practical conditions
in which are mentioned, on these kinds of plans, the mentions
intellectual property protection classics; of course when they
are, which is precisely relatively infrequent as mentioned above.

Generally, these mentions are carried in two ways
- the first and most frequent is to provide this men
tion in a special box, 5, of the cartridge
- the second consists in printing this mention in 6, directly
on the plan, outside the title block 3.

In the case of the first way
- the mention is necessarily very brief and summary - which
is embarrassing - since it must be "relegated" to one of the
boxes of a cartridge which contains quite a few others; these
the latter being intended to be used by users
of the plan and therefore having a natural vocation to be privileged
managed in size to satisfy the latter
- on the other hand - which is reassuring -, these mentions are
easily and automatically affixed to the plan when
that the cartridges are pre-printed on the plans or when
are applied to them in the form of pre-labels
As these cartridges are necessary, because of their
function for grouping technical information identi
fiction relating to the plan, the Directions of the companies
are also fully "reassured" about the affixing of the
protection statement they contain.

In the case of the second way
- the terms may, in principle, be more elaborate and more
important
- experience shows, however, that these mentions remain rela
summary for a simple reason: the organization of
the printing of layers, in a company, is heavy and
expensive. The company management really needs to
be extremely sensitive to protection issues for
engage in the corresponding procedures and embarrassments
Under these conditions, the development of a formula
is done once and for all, either by the depar
legal, either by an external Council; because of
necessary current storage, varieties of format and
narrow fraction of recipients to whom a statement is addressed
with predetermined language, it is not conceivable that this
be patiently repeated periodically during
years to be properly developed, like this
would in principle be necessary; for example, one of the
the most elaborate mules of this kind (intended for the office of
research of a centenary multinational company, however
extremely vigilant when it comes to preserving its creat
tions) has no more than two and a half lines!
After having described these two forms of presentation, on the traditional plans, of the mentions of protection of industrial property rights, we will now describe the practical conditions under which these are actually worn on the layers
first of all, we understand that the frame 2 and the cartridge 3 (with the boxes and the information it contains), as well as the mention 6, can be purely and simply executed by the designer on a perfectly clean white sheet virgin; it is clear that the designer then has the concern of limiting the corresponding task strictly to what is necessary. Even insofar as he generally has letters of the alphabet capable of being transferred from conventional "transfer" boards - which allows him to present texts in a composition and with impeccable quality -, we understand that you should hardly expect him to be very cooperative in transcribing texts that are too long. Especially if these are imposed on him by others, who concoiven them certainly according to perhaps imperatives perhaps serious, but who .. do not transcribe them themselves
This is why, when these mentions are any little important in length, the Business Directions tend to have preprinted on blank layers.
- frame 2,
- cartridge 3 and its boxes, if any already filled in
maximum by the headings of the headings,
- and a mention of type 6, the designer then confining himself to "filling" the boxes of the cartridge thereafter, according to the drawing that he executes.

These pre-prints are of course expensive, not only because of their actual execution but also because of the disruptions they introduce in the administration and in the processing of their orders, their storage, their supply and their control. This is why it is often, ultimately, the cartridges (shown on the layers of Figures 1 and 2) which are often pre-printed and put in place by the designers themselves, to whom they are supplied in the form of bundles 7 (figure 3)
For this purpose, the cartridges shown in this figure 3 were printed on one side (here, the underside as one realizes by reading the letters by transparency) of a translucent sheet 8 which was then coated , over this print, with an adhesive coating. This lower face carries two silicone flaps 8a intended to preserve the adhesive coating when the sheets 8 are in bundles. These two parts are intended to be removed (arrows f1, Figure 3) before these sheets 8 are applied (arrows f2, Figure 4) on the back of layer 1.

 It is clear that, when the application operation illustrated in FIG. 4 has been consumed, the layer 1 provided with the back "label" 8 appears as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, that is to say say exactly like a layer on which the cartridge would have been drawn or printed, at least as regards its subsequent exploitation in terms of prints. Indeed, the contours of the label 8 (edges of the label on the tracing paper) are absolutely not visible on the diazeic prints made from the tracing paper. So, we do not know, on examination of a drawing of the plan, If the cartridge 3 has been drawn, or else if it has been printed on the tracing paper, or else if it has been reported using a backing label 8 on which it has been pre-printed, or well finally if, subject to the problem of your size, it was applied with a simple ink pad. Can examine the layer, kept in the library of plans of the company, allows to know it.

 We will therefore now describe the new process which makes it possible to solve the problem of the systematic - and in any case appropriate - placement of notices of protection of intellectual property rights on the layers of planes.

 Referring to FIG. 5, one sees one of the simplest forms in which the innovation submitted in support of this patent application can be carried out.

The idea behind this innovation is
- to clear the usual mentions 5 and 6 from the environment
graphics and support with which they have always been associated
so far, that is to say
outside box 2 and box 3 for the mention 6,
outside the title block 3 for the mention 5,
- and to write these mentions on an individual support,
in the case of FIG. 5, by labels 9 and 10 of
structure of the type of that of the labels 8 which are represented
shown in Figures 3 and 4.

 FIG. 5 shows the flaps 9a and 10a which are homologous to the flaps 8a in FIG. 3; however, for the clarity of the drawings and as these are structural elements which could not be more conventional for this kind of labels, we will refrain from continuing to represent the corresponding sections, in the following figures, each time such labels will be resented.

As soon as these mentions are provided, with adhesive printing on independent labels of type 9 and 10, it is indeed already possible to present and treat them under very diverse conditions, and therefore to remove a good part of the obstacles. which have been reported above
first of all, the designer can have a bundle of clean formulas, of the kind shown in Figure 3 and he can place them, at his discretion, when he wants, on any layer he wants and wherever it wants on that layer.

 In addition, these bundles are convenient, compact, easy to keep close at hand, put in place by a familiar maneuver and, which is quite important for the designer, their content can be presented in a graphic form clean and neat perfectly in harmony with the rest of the drawing, that is to say in a form that fits perfectly into the latter, without degrading it or, therefore, "defiling" the designer's own work.

 In addition, the mentions can be, if necessary, placed "a posteriori" superimposed - in fact on the back - of any fragment of the drawing (in particular behind the drawing of a very original mechanical part, which would therefore be specially protected ) to emphasize that it is this fragment of the drawing that we intend to protect. Indeed, since these labels 9 or 10 are applied to the back of the layer, they do not interfere with the drawing at all and which can also be repeated later on the front of the layer. There is therefore, for the designer, a whole "approach" in favor of which he is really able to ask himself, at this or that stage of the progress of his project and according to his reflections, if he can there is an interest in placing a label (concerning this or that protection panel) on the back of such a place, insofar as he "sees" something important. The only gesture he has to do at this time there is to open its drawer, take a self-adhesive label, lift a corner of its tracing after having stripped it and place the label on the back of the tracing at the chosen location; and to start again, later, in another place, with a second label, if that proves desirable. This, moreover, without seeking to place this label rigorously, to the millimeter, compared to something else since, as we as will be seen with reference to FIGS. 15 and 16, the labels 9 or 10 can be produced in very small dimensions (up to those of a simple postage stamp) and it is absolutely not annoying - on the contrary - that the mention of protection that they carry is "thrown" a little anyhow in the drawing, at any particular place on the layer that is desired.

One of the significant obstacles which this process removes elsewhere is that of the importance - that is to say of the length - of the text constituting the statement of protection of intellectual property of the prints which will be edited from of any layer
we saw above that even type 6 mentions are limited.

On the other hand, the completely complete ones which should be used in all rigor are much more important, if one really wants to cover all the reservations and all the warnings which must be formulated for a plan to be well protected in any circumstance whatsoever; experience has shown, moreover, that such complete mentions can only be properly developed by multiple repetitions developing over several years, thanks to the experiences which allow them to be tested. However, precisely, there is no length limit to the reception of these texts as soon as they are carried by individual labels 11 (Figure 6) easily modifiable thanks to their successive editions and which, as we can see in this figure 6, can accept much longer texts (therefore much more effective in their effects). Besides, nothing prevents the editor of such labels
- on the one hand, to revise the text of these statements to the extent
where the very diverse dissemination of these allows
record a wide panorama of reactions and observations
- and, on the other hand, to provide specially and res texts
pectively adapted to the protections sought in the
most diverse subjects (industrial design, architecture,
etc .... and even in photography, musical works
shims, etc., for non-translucent labels as
see below).

 For example, a label 11 can be produced with a well-studied and complete text 12 with, moreover, a box 13 in which a mention may possibly be made explaining one of the three traditional degrees of secrecy (confidential, secret and Top secret). In particular, three labels 11 can be produced, each with - in this box 13 - an impression thus identifying one of these three levels of secrecy.

 It does not matter, therefore, the size of the label 11 since the designer can place it wherever he wants on the back of his layer, precisely either in a large empty part, or deliberately superimposed on a drawing part (a once it has been completed or even before), or even in any place and at any angle to attract attention. We therefore realize that the label bearing the statement of protection reserve will be "placed "and" oriented "by the designer under conditions such that he will form a composition" message "and will therefore become an artistic performer without any real effort to make other than that of make work of "composer"; task which he has all the reasons to carry out with talent - and with interest - since he will have a convenient and familiar instrument allowing him to signal to his taste, not only to third parties but also to staff members of the company, the importance of such and such a drawing (or such fraction of a drawing) of which he is the author.

If we try to understand in more detail the conditions in which this approach is manifested - quite new for a designer -, we realize that the label of important dimension of the kind of that, 14, of figure 7 can s 'to analyze as comprising then, theoretically
- three texts 15-16-17 respectively intended to cover, this
both specifically and in detail, the pro situations
tection of the documents concerned by the three degrees of
cret,
- and an essential basic text 18, supplemented by more text
or less accessory 19, to which we will return below.

 Consequently, it is possible to fragment the label 14 into five labels 14a to 14e, which can then be affixed selectively, separately, in combination or in repetition by the designer.

 This fragmentation can moreover be carried out not only in the form of a particular distribution of the texts on the label, as illustrated in FIG. 7, but especially in the form of a real separation of the label 14 from the figure. 7 in five labels, as illustrated in figure 8.

The separation into five "sections" of the text, deemed "complete", which is on the label 14 precisely allows to solve very easily the delicate problem of the language to adopt for a plan, for the mention of protection, depending on its particular content and, therefore, future recipients of its prints
indeed, the formula carried by the label 14a can ensure all the reserves of essential rights, but in a spirit of general defensive precaution and in a strictly passive neutral language, so that this label can be affixed in a systematic way on all levels, with certain modulations as to its location (more or less discreet), as to its size (as we will see below) and as to its relative environment, all left to the appreciation of the As a result, none of the recipients of the prints of the plans provided with the mention carried by such labels 14a, even those most likely, can ever be offended by a reserve of pure passive precaution, perfectly legitimate and understandable.

 On the other hand, the formulas carried by the labels 14c, 14d and 14e (which relate to the protection of secret studies, therefore precious) may, for their part, include a more critical language marked even by a certain brutality, generally light in the case of label 14c ("Confidential"), serious in the case of label 14d ("Secret") and extreme in the case of label 14e ("Top secret").

It therefore suffices only for the designer or his manager, when the case arises because of the particular work or because of systematic directives, to choose and use the label 14c, 14d or 14e which is suitable for the plan bearing such or such study, without the corresponding special languages having to be used on the neck plans
rants.

 One thus solves one of the difficulties which determine the chronic failures of the attempts which have been multiplied so far to introduce disciplines of "marking" of plans: it is quite obvious, indeed, that the designer to whom we have enjoined to bear systematically a standard "bastard" - but rigid - mention on all his plans raises some questions the day he realizes that this mention is likely to be too aggressive for a plan or for a specific recipient. On the other hand, he certainly loses all motivation to follow this directive on the day when he is admitted, after a misadventure which he may have paid for, that this compact mention must be worn in certain cases and may not have to be. in others. This kind of discouraging difficulty at first, then paralyzing at a later time, is completely eliminated with the labels in sections 14a to 14e of FIGS. 7 to 10. It will be noted, moreover, that the label 14b may bear a mention "a little less passive" than that of the label 14a but "a little less suspicious" than that of the labels 14c to 14e; for example, this label 14b can carry a simple list of "Applicable Texts (Laws and Decrees)" which punish the infringements or guarantee the repair of prejudices in the matter. This kind of mention - informative but clearly directed - can accentuate a dissuasive character, especially insofar as one enumerates all the texts, and not one or two (or only some).

 In this way, the penalties being appropriately recalled where it is necessary - and when it is necessary -, the "dissuasive" vocation of this type of mention produces its effects perfectly.

 Therefore, if we provide the designer bundles 20a to 20e (Figure 9) of all these labels, it is clear that it then has, in a form that could not be more compact, clean and pleasant to put in place, of all the instruments allowing it to affix with the most extreme flexibility - and in all the nuances of presentation all the texts that the Management of companies are currently trying to make it put in place on their layers.

 Note, moreover, that this flexibility is very extensive since I can, for example, make available to the designer labels in various sizes, in order to allow him to modulate as he pleases the "weight" of the "message "that he has to compose on a plan.

For example, FIG. 10 shows a second set of bundles 21a to 21e of labels of smaller sizes. Subject to not unnecessarily multiplying the types of labels to be placed at the disposal of the designers, it is thus possible to provide two, three or four other sizes or more, if necessary or desired (sizes which will be identified, for example, by designations such as: Mega, Maxi, Standard, Mini,
Micro, or Tom Thumb for example); in this way, depending on whether a "message" must be "discreet" or "insistent", the designer can choose a label of a greater or lesser size whose final effect he is able to further modulate by the location and the environment it affects in the drawing
In order to provide the designer with a very wide range of fragments of protection notices, in multiple sizes, while presenting them in as compact and as little dispersed form as possible, all of these labels can be grouped together not in bundles 20a, 20b, etc., but in composite boards (an example of which is illustrated in FIG. 13 which will be described in more detail below) which may, for example, include assorted labels, more or less varied and more or less provided, so that the designer can then compose his warning message with extremely diversified labels that he only needs to pre-store on one or two boards only
In addition, insofar as the designer may, at a certain stage of his work, have affixed on the back of his tracing a label of the type 14c (low degree of secrecy) and wish to further enhance this degree with a label 14d ( of a higher degree), it will be advantageous to use for all these labels a "soft" adhesive allowing their removal without altering the layers too much. Indeed, as the latter remain in the "layer library", in the company, there is no fear that the labels will be removed by third parties. The latter have only prints within which the layer protection statements are fully integrated and, therefore, .... indelible!
Referring now to FIG. 11, it can be seen that the label 14a can be produced in a form
- on the one hand, attractive to the designer since
its text 18 is associated with a title 18a of the kind "Attention!
Protected Plan! "And a symbol 22 that is little studied on the
plan of graphics, and therefore perfectly able to integrate
easily in the drawn work of said designer,
- and, on the other hand, significant and perfectly reasonable for
anyone who consults the map, since the symbol 22
only evokes a legitimate concern for quiet protection.

Similarly, to the extent that the decor can be further improved in the form
- on the one hand, more attractive to the designer
- and, on the other hand, more "salient" for the person called to
consult the plan, said designer - always anxious to treat his drawing in the sense that it produces the best effect - will be interested in processing a mention 18 "framed"; at the same time, if the corresponding frame is suitably chosen to highlight this mention in relation to the monochrome greyness of the map prints, the gaze of the people called upon to consult the latter will be "captured" and directed towards the mention which is inside, and to which it is rightly wished that their attention be drawn.

 Thus, a frame of the type represented in 23 (FIGS. 11 and 12), which is in false relief, is entirely capable on the one hand of satisfying the aesthetic concern of a designer and on the other hand of being immediately spotted on an industrial level.

 It is precisely important that this type of framing is set up intelligently on the drawing once it is completed; as the designer is, by far, the person who is most able to perform the real "artistic composition" useful and necessary for the desired result, since he knows the content of his drawing intimately, we understand how it is important that the instruments placed at his disposal seduce him and are for him real small pieces of art with which he has every reason to be tempted to "play".

For example, we can always find other symbols of type 22, not only for the label 14a but also for the labels 14b, 14c, 14d and 14e; thus, a logotype 24 (figure 12) used
- once for label 14c (first degree of secrecy),
- twice for the label 14d (second degree of secrecy),
- three times for the 14th label (third degree of secrecy),
as shown in 24a on the upper right of
this figure 12, for information only since this figure
illustrates a 14c type label (first degree of secrecy)
therefore to illustrate with the only logo 24 which is on the
left part of the figure the main thing being that these symbols constitute elements pleasing to the designers and interesting to compose with each other
Indeed, the creation of compositions of this type is precisely what the designers "like" to do. In this way, the Management of companies can know that they will not have the worry of having to "oblige" said designers to use these kinds of labels. On the contrary1 they will tend to ask the Directorates for them and to go even before the latter's wishes; bringing them, at the same time, the perfect solution to their concern since the appropriate texts are therefore "slipped" into suitable supports, that is to say in fragmented and decorated supports, in the same way as current formulas - banal - are "slipped" into cartridges (unfortunately not designed to frame "panoply" of formulas and difficult to handle because of their dimensions imposed by their essentially technical vocation).

 We will now describe how, as soon as there are independent labels of the 14c to 14th type (the mentions of which respectively relate to each of the degrees of secrecy), it is possible to ensure "self-checking" of the delivery of drawings to third parties and, in any case "dissuasive" conditions, that of the circulation of these prints after these discounts.

Referring to FIGS. 8 and 9, it will be noted that some (14c and 14e) of the labels 14c, 14d and 1te have blank locations at their lower part. These allow to foresee this "self-control" in an extremely simple and easy way
When the label 14c for example is applied to the back of the layer, the three empty locations 25, 26 and 27 which we have taken the precaution of reserving on this label (FIG. 12) are of course reported on this layer and , thereafter, on the prints that will be made. We can also see very clearly in FIG. 14 how the frame appears (since the edges of the label are not visible when the label 14c in FIG. 12 is drawn, on the drawing of the plane in the vicinity of the cartridge of this latest.

It is therefore sufficient to assign these locations to the affixing of visas, directly on each drawing, identifying the person who gives the drawing of plan, the one who receives it as well as the date. As of this affixing, the print carries its "pass" and the trace of an authorized discount. It is therefore sufficient that, when a printout is delivered, the engineer or the trader who performs this delivery
- its claw 28, for example in the form of initials which will
perfectly recognized thereafter in the company,
- date 29 of delivery
- and a summary identification of the person receiving the ti
rabies (company name, initials, etc .... or even, what is in
its preferable, its reception visa 30) so that the draw
be immediately and irrevocably personalized, as well as
appears in Figure 14.

Since then
- on the one hand, the entries 28, 29 and 30 on the suf print
make the holder responsible for what happens
dra of this draw now entrusted to his control and his care,
so that "self-control" naturally develops
in the hands of this holder
- and, on the other hand, it is sufficient that the person who submits the print
take a simple photocopy of the entire cartridge and
of the frame 23 of the label 14c of the print of FIG. 14 (in
seems whose dimensions fit perfectly into a forum
classic mat A4, illustrated at F in this figure 14), for
that she has a document, in the format of her file
technical or commercial, allowing it to keep a
trace of this discount, perfectly identified by the indications
contained in the title block of the plan.

We see that this procedure
- couldn't be simpler (just a few seconds for
carry visas and to take a photocopy, no notes
to take),
- is capable of making the holder aware (and responsible)
of the value of what was given to him
- and provides the company, in its most interesting files
sés, a situation of his plans circulating among third parties to
outside.

 This procedure can moreover be supplemented, under the same conditions, by a recording of the date and a return visa in the case of ultra-secret documents to be tracked and treated with labels of the 14th type. . It then suffices to provide on this label 14e five free boxes 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32 instead of the three boxes 25, 26 and 27 provided on the label 14c.

 In the example shown, the label 14d intended to be associated with already more secret plans, intended to be delivered to third parties, does not carry any space for a visa because it can be considered that this type of plan should only be delivered the favor of a special procedure, regulated according to forms which must leave traces.

 It will be noted that the procedure which has just been exposed is not original in itself. It could, moreover, be currently put into practice every day without the help of any label; more than one manager has probably even tried to introduce it into his business. It is however clear that to the extent that, thanks to the appropriate labels, a special frame has been provided where necessary, with the necessary locations and headings, and with a reminder on the spot of the directives, the merchant who submits a plan to a client is no longer embarrassed to take the necessary precautions; on the contrary, it is particularly comfortable - vis-à-vis this client - to be able to refer to the indications on the map in order to take the initiative to complete the visa formality which values this discount and its In fact, the function of the 14c or 14th label worn by the prints is limited to that of inviting to execute the formality: it constitutes the instrument that remembers attention when you forget it and that provides instantly the convenient means of execution.

 We have shown in Figures 15 and 16 and we will now describe two examples of compositions made on dressed plans with a plurality of "mentions".

Thus, the plan of Figure 15 includes
- a label of type 14a, of fairly large size (Maxi) to
title of central protection reserve,
- three labels of type 14b (in Mini format) for reservations
complementary or accessories,
- and a label of type 14c (in Standard format and near the
cartridge) for identification "confidential" of the lower level
laughter of secret.

 It will be noted that the labels are "thrown" almost everywhere in the plan, without rigor or alignment - on the contrary -, which precisely helps to point them out. On the other hand, these various labels have been placed in certain places on the plan which "blend" well with the industrial design carried by the latter.

 It will also be noted that there is nothing to prevent the same label 14b from being placed in three places, especially if its size does not exceed that of a postage stamp. On the one hand, these three labels help to dress the plan and, on the other hand, they allow to insist on a relatively neutral but significant aspect of the message since this label carries a list of the texts of Laws, as indicated above.

 Likewise, the label 14a in FIG. 15, comprising illustration 22, could be combined on the same plan with a whole series of small identical labels but without text, that is to say simply repeating the logotype 22 in its frame and distributed to the sensitive points of the drawing, as "references" associated with the complete label.

 We thus realize that the placement of the labels and the choice of their number, when they are repeated, allows the designer to "dose" in a truly personal way, the overall message of rights reservation, if necessary to favored by discussions that the "arrangements" of each other will not fail to determine between colleagues.

Similarly, the plan shown in Figure 16 includes
- a label 14a ', of the type 14a, but in pure text,
i.e. without illustration 22 and without frame 23 (the text
naked thus appearing right in the middle of the shot is obviously
incongruous, but not unpleasant to the eye; on the contrary, in the
as the graphics of the text are neat),
- a label of type 14a with illustration,
- other labels also dispersed in the plan, certai
nes of which can be repeated and chosen from small
cut.

 One realizes, on examining FIGS. 15 and 16, that the layers treated in accordance with the present innovation are certainly likely to ultimately resemble baggage coated with hotel labels; it should be noted, however, that any excess in this matter can only satisfy company management insofar as each label constitutes an instrument of protection.

 We will finally show, as already indicated above, that we can very well make available to designers a very wide variety of labels without the need for a multitude of bundles of labels.

For example, if we refer to the plate shown in Figure 13, it includes, in a simple A4 format
- for sticker type 14a, with a symbol in illustration
. 2 thumbnails in Maxi format,
. 2 Thumbnails in Standard format,
4 4 thumbnails in Mini format,
- for type 14a 'without symbol or frame, i.e. simply
with text
1 thumbnail in Maxi format,
- for type 14b (legislative texts3 ::
z 2 thumbnails in Standard format,
2 2 thumbnails in Mini format,
- for type 14c (confidential)
2 thumbnails in Mini format,
- for type 14d (secret)
2 thumbnails in Mini format,
- for type 14e (Top secret):
2 thumbnails in Mini format.

We therefore realize that, on the basis of labels of only three sizes (A7: Maxi, A8: Standard and A9: Mini), a single sheet is able to supply a designer
- five message texts,
- divided into six presentations,
- representing nine different vignettes, if we consider in
in addition to the size parameter,
- and totaling no less than ... 19 thumbnails!
It is therefore easy to imagine that one can very easily "dose" a message under extremely nuanced conditions, even beyond what may be necessary, especially if diversification is pushed on two or three assortment boards different.

 It will also be noted that the vignettes of the plate of FIG. 13 can be mounted precut on a silicone support so that they can be purely and simply removed by stripping (peeling from one of their corners) according to a classic technique.

 It is, finally, clear that the same grouping of thumbnails as that illustrated on the board of FIG. 13 can be offered in completely pre-cut form, in pockets, so that the designer can, if he wishes, place these thumbnails on its plan before applying them, in order to measure the effects of their compositions.

The innovation which has just been described is of course not limited to
embodiments which have just been described.

In particular, it is quite obvious that all that has been described and represented with reference to translucent dorsal self-adhesive labels for layers applies completely, as regards in any case the fragmentation of mentions in panels, to labels adhesives on common paper, which would be treated like postage stamp sheets, for example in sets, but with their printing normally on their non-adhesive side. This kind of presentation is even extremely practical because, when creating or handling sensitive documents, experience shows that it is almost always impossible to find, at the time, the "confidential" stamp that the we can have established for the purpose of protecting this kind of documents. To the extent therefore that we can have such plates
- at such a space-saving point that they can be slipped into a wallet -, we are always able to instantly affix, on any document, a message perfectly "dosed", of the type that is possible to compose with the labels 14a to 14e. It suffices only to provide these “normal paper” labels with a sufficiently strong adhesive so that they cannot be removed, without leaving a trace, from the document to which they are applied and which they are intended to protect.

 The innovation could likewise be implemented, theoretically, with an assortment of "ink pads" which would carry the terms of the labels 14a to 14e. It is however clear that, in practical terms and as indicated above, this formula would be so cumbersome that one would find all the drawbacks mentioned at the beginning of this description.

 The innovation having now been exposed and its interest justified on detailed examples, the applicant reserves exclusivity for the entire duration of the patent, without limitation other than that of the terms of the claims below.

Claims (9)

 placement of the layer cartridge.  favor of at least one operation separate from that of the  by means of its support, in particular on the layer on the  and apply at least one of these segments to the document  whose layer is to be established,  select the segment (s) suitable for each plane  games in which these can successively  - to entrust to users, in particular to designers, these  - and preferably all - of these segments,  - to constitute sets of supports containing at least several  separate,  carried by, and in particular printed on, supports  - to fragment the said global formula into several segments  situations to cover,  - to compose a global composite formula adapted to the plurality  said process being characterized in that it consists  industrialists, architects, etc.,  documents, in particular on the layers used for drawing plans  intellectual property rights reserved - on  1 Process for the presentation of opinions, in particular those applied - with a view to 2. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that it consists of  outraged  - to provide printing reserves in some of the seg  with allocation of these reservations to the subsequent apposition  visa, especially on the prints of the layers. 3. Method according to claim 2, characterized in that it consists of  outraged  - to affix the segments containing the printing reserves  near the layer cartridge  - and to photocopy, in a standard file format, The whole  elements, segment and visas after affixing. 4. Collection of supports for implementing the process according to the  claim 1, characterized in that the supports bear respec  tively, preferably in printed form, the various segments  of the overall formula. 5. Collection according to claim 4, characterized in that the sup  ports consist of translucent self-adhesive labels  pre-printed, especially on their adhesive side. 6. Collection according to claim 4, characterized in that the sup  ports are made up of adhesive labels (self-adhesive or  gummed) in opaque paper with the prints on their side  not adhesive.  7. Collection according to one of claims 4 to 6, characterized in that  as decorative symbols, specially adapted to match with  the drawings to be drawn on the layers, are provided on the supports  to illustrate the meaning of the text segments they carry. 8. Collection according to one of claims 4 to 7, characterized in that  that the text segments are housed in frames with  salient character, particularly with a three-dimensional appearance. 9. Collection according to one of claims 4 to 8, characterized in that  that the impressions carried by at least some of the supports  include, with the appropriate identification elements,  serves intended for - and identified for - serve for affixing  of visas.