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I doubt that making an idea public online will make it unpatentable, but regardless, an idea sharing and discussion community would be cool. There is an idea s
by grag 18y ago
I doubt that making an idea public online will make it unpatentable, but regardless, an idea sharing and discussion community would be cool.
There is an idea sharing subreddit that's fairly popular:
http://www.reddit.com/r/idea/ http://www.reddit.com/r/idea/
- tectonic 18y agoThanks for telling me about this.
- echair 18y agoI doubt that making an idea public online will make it unpatentable Actually it will. To avoid repetition: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=246005 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=246005
- gojomo 18y agoSee also http://www.halfbakery.com http://www.halfbakery.com and (if it ever comes back from 'redesign') http://www.shouldexist.org/ http://www.shouldexist.org/ .
- nailer 18y agoIt means the concept is no longer 'novel' (USPTO) or has an 'innovative step' (IP Australia).