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Those who profit from patents will always support them. The best way to undermine patentability is to publicly disclose the invention in advance, thereby creat
by burgreblast 14y ago
Those who profit from patents will always support them.
The best way to undermine patentability is to publicly disclose the invention in advance, thereby creating prior art that no one can patent.
To me, the simplest solution would be "CantPatentThis.com" where you disclose your ideas/sketches. Think GitHub for ideas, not necessarily working code.
Thoughts?
- nitrogen 14y agoThere is Halfbakery (http://www.halfbakery.com/editorial/about.html http://www.halfbakery.com/editorial/about.html), which I tend to avoid but have occasionally seen in Google search results and/or mentioned in online discussions.
- tomrod 14y agoSure, but it defeats the purpose of what the patent is getting at--rewarding an inventor and innovator for creativity in application of new principles. The whole intent of a patent is to give the holder a monopoly on the technology for a given time period so as to encourage innovation. The other shoe is a trade secret--publishing trade secrets would ensure literally no economic rents to the innovator. Probably a better set of reforms that would solve a host of problems: * 5 year patent length limit * Nontransferability of patent (can't sell IP, say) * No software patents. If it's written in code, get a copyright.