Timeline for Is there a way to achieve protections similar to "Copyleft" under the patent system?
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| May 5, 2017 at 18:46 | comment | added | Felipe G. Nievinski | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patentleft | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 23:00 | comment | added | dewtell | The literal question asked was "Specifically, is there a way I ensure that someone cannot patent an idea without filing for a patent myself?" This is how IBM did precisely that. If you want a different analogy to CopyLeft - such as how to make your work freely available only for restricted uses - then you will probably need to secure intellectual property rights to your work in a way that allows you to license those rights in a way similar to the GPL. People are less likely to do that with patents, because good patents are much more expensive to get than copyrights. | |
| Sep 8, 2013 at 18:09 | comment | added | George White♦ | Disclosure puts something in the public domain, copy left first claims ownership and then grants rights with conditions (specific rules on openness of derived works). | |
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| Sep 8, 2013 at 5:08 | history | answered | dewtell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |