Questions tagged [defensive-publications]
Publications used to put teachings into the public domain to prevent future patents in that subject matter.
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Best places to record ideas as prior art to avoid later patents (UK/US)
any advice on the best places/web sites of record to list ideas which you want to be on record as prior art so others can't patent them (UK/US/Europe) ?
I have some ideas, which I don't want to ...
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How to make an invention un-patentable easily?
It appears that the USPTO no longer does defensive publications, but instead you're supposed to abandon a patent application. But that will still incur filing fees, etc. I figure an obscure blog ...
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avoid the possibility of a future patent
Here's a hypothetical scenario:
I have a new idea, say a new engine of some sort. I don't want to patent it because I don't want to ever profit from it and I would like to use a license in the spirit ...
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Can someone patent someone else's invention?
In the history, invention conflicts were on who has patented an invention sooner. This is the subject of stealing an invention. Consider one has published an invention in any kind of media, can this ...
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Patent application as defensive disclosure
Is filing a patent effective as defensive disclosure if the the patent is not granted?
Any application is published after 18 months (except publication delay request) or if the patent doesn't pass a ...
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Defensive publication and public domain
Are folks who publish design details, implementing an idea, putting that idea's implementation into the public domain?
Put another way... have these publishers, whether they wanted to or not:
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