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Not all, but certainly a large portion of halfbakers seem oblivious to the fact that posting their next great idea here is putting it in the public domain, and forever voiding any future patent claims.
It's a fabulous place, and great if you want to share and have fun with ideas. However, if
you DO intend to get greedy with the idea, then this just isn't the place to test it out unless you filed a patent BEFORE posting it here.
Expand the nugget of wisdom above into an appropriate 1/2 hour, or 1/2-day web-based class and sell it to halfbakers.
(At half-price, of course.)
"Protecting Your Ability to Get a Patent: What Counts as a Bar to Patenting?"
http://web.mit.edu/...www/patentbars.html
“The U.S. patent law system ... allows you to publish your invention ... prior to filing a patent application, provided that you file your patent application within one year of the publication. ... The one year period is known as a “‘grace period.’” [bristolz, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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1) I don't think posting an idea, song, or design on this, or any other place relinquishes assignment to the public domain. (However, I would be gitty for years if people would copy any of my ideas :-) |
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2) Patent prior to post? That would drive up the cost of halfbaking astronomically. It would weed out the riff-raff, but a bunch of other bakers to. |
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The HB is for "fictional" ideas - as in specualtive engineering. I think most bakers just want to be able to say, at some point in the distant future, "Hey, they're installing custard filled ________, I came up with that idea years ago, here's a hyperlink!" |
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As far as I know, patent law in the US allows validity for 12 months after disclosure. Your mileage may vary in other countries. |
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Quite coincidentally, the halfbakery tagline atop the page when I pulled up this idea was "There's no money in it" which I think speaks well for almost all the ideas posted here. Methinks [sophocles] doth overestimate the collective practical creativity of the 1/2b. But then again there's always the thousand-monkey theory... |
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This one turns up fairly regularly. I seriously doubt anyone intelligent enough to develop a patentable idea would post it on the HB. If they did then it would be because they have no intention of ever bringing it to production. |
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