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Maybe we should. Exhaust all combinations and verify them for time when this "idea" was conceived, then dump out the list on a website and have people come up w
by manaskarekar 14y ago
Maybe we should. Exhaust all combinations and verify them for time when this "idea" was conceived, then dump out the list on a website and have people come up with uses for it (and actually use them.)
Boom! Prior art to invalidate future bullshit.
- 4rgento 14y agoI know you are joking, but I don't think this is a bad idea nor an imposible one.
- javajosh 14y agoThe problem is that patent examiners are limited as to the sources they can consult for prior art. I don't know precisely what they are.
- dpatrick86 14y agoDude, that's brilliant. This idea needs some sort of presentation, video, early prototype or something to make it go "viral."
- jlgreco 14y ago> In IP geek circles, Manfred is legendary; he's the guy who patented the business practice of moving your e-business somewhere with a slack intellectual property regime in order to evade licensing encumbrances. He's the guy who patented using genetic algorithms to patent everything they can permutate from an initial description of a problem domain – not just a better mousetrap, but the set of all possible better mousetraps. Roughly a third of his inventions are legal, a third are illegal, and the remainder are legal but will become illegal as soon as the legislatosaurus wakes up, smells the coffee, and panics. There are patent attorneys in Reno who swear that Manfred Macx is a pseudo, a net alias fronting for a bunch of crazed anonymous hackers armed with the Genetic Algorithm That Ate Calcutta: a kind of Serdar Argic of intellectual property, or maybe another Bourbaki math borg. There are lawyers in San Diego and Redmond who swear blind that Macx is an economic saboteur bent on wrecking the underpinning of capitalism, and there are communists in Prague who think he's the bastard spawn of Bill Gates by way of the Pope. Excerpt from Accelerando by Charles Stross (cstross). Emphasis added. I would love to see some sort of legal patent pool that grants free licenses only to entities that either do not have patents themselves, or which have granted licenses for all of their patents to other members of the pool. The trick of course is getting such a pool to a critical mass that joining it and licensing all your patents to it becomes worth it.
- dllthomas 14y agoThe last bit is the idea behind the Defensive Patent License, though the site seems to be down (and malicious, says google) so I won't link it.
- jlgreco 14y agoAh brilliant. Sounds like pretty much exactly the sort of thing I was thinking of.
- manaskarekar 14y agoWiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_Patent_License http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_Patent_License "It requires entities licensing their patents under the DPL to license all of their patents under the DPL, with free licenses granted to all other DPL participants.[4] DPL participants remain free to launch patent lawsuits against non-participants."
- patentmatt 14y agoThat exact sort of patent pool exists for the Linux community - its called the Open Invention Network. http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/ http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/
- Vivtek 14y agoI can't remember where I read it or the name of it, but just such a patent pool was founded a few years back and then the principals realized they could be making more money trolling. So they do. Using the patents in the pool.
- Schwolop 14y agoAll this really needs is for the standard search engine to automatically generate the prior art for every patent search. No matter what you search for - pop! - there's your prior art instantly posted to the public domain with an open license.
- dubya 14y agoIsn't the new model first-to-file though? So you'd have a second group of robots actually patenting things coming out of the generator.