Yeah, it did occur to me after commenting that it might be difficult to extract the specific patentable invention chunk from the overall application. I can't t

Yeah, it did occur to me after commenting that it might be difficult to extract the specific patentable invention chunk from the overall application. I can't think of a single approach that would work everywhere, but logically isolating it as a library or service might work, similar to the way in which you can implement an IPC/RPC shim for interfacing to GPL'd code from your proprietary app. Inventions that don't fit that model (Operating Systems, Embedded Firmware, Massive Scale, etc) complicate the matter, but I imagine a set of disclosure options could be devised, and the inventor/patent office would select the most appropriate.