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If you don't patent, you lose the ability to go after others if they independently create the same invention or reverse engineer your product. And if you fail t
by curun1r 9y ago
If you don't patent, you lose the ability to go after others if they independently create the same invention or reverse engineer your product. And if you fail to properly document your use and someone else patents it, you could lose the rights to your invention altogether.
Keeping something important as a trade secret has enough risk already.
- kuschku 9y agoYet, the waymo case exists, and waymo hasn’t patented or published anything, and probably won’t ever publish it.
- curun1r 9y agoThat's false. The Waymo-Uber case contains patent claims, though 3 of the 4 were dropped at the judge's suggestion. So it seems that Google has patented quite a few aspects of their self-driving vehicles. The article I found didn't list the patent they're still pursuing against Uber, but here's the 3 patents Google decided not to pursue: https://www.google.com/patents/US8836922 https://www.google.com/patents/US8836922 https://www.google.com/patents/US9285464 https://www.google.com/patents/US9285464 https://www.google.com/patents/US9086273 https://www.google.com/patents/US9086273
- kuschku 9y agoGood, now link me the source code and 3D definition files required to replicate that without any further work. That’s what should be provided with patents, as I said in the original comment.
- curun1r 9y agoWhat if the source code is in a different language from the one you use? Should a patent force Google to port their code specifically for you? What if the 3D files are for an expensive program that's different from the one you use? Should a patent force Google to convert their files for use with every 3D modeling program? Patents are about telling you how to do the work, not about doing it for you.