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Looking at the examples, I notice that they are all rather long. I have often thought about the idea of algoritmically creating prior art, but simply by joining
by timthelion 11y ago
Looking at the examples, I notice that they are all rather long. I have often thought about the idea of algoritmically creating prior art, but simply by joining pairs of words. For example: Vibrating motor+keyboard, vibrating motor+screen, vibrating motor+mouse, vibrating motor+stylus...
To prevent patents like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_v._Sony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_v._Sony
- theoh 11y agoThis is an older and more succinct implementation of that kind of idea: http://thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart.cgi http://thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart.cgi
- taneq 11y agoSo something to exhaustively generate trivial ideas in order to prevent companies patenting things like "one+click+purchase"? I have a feeling it would get a response of "that doesn't count" but I don't know how they'd back that up.