When you file a patent (assuming you know how to do that), the patent examiners search for relevant prior art, other patents or public documents where your invention may have been disclosed in the past. This would prevent the patent from being granted. You can imagine that this is a very very difficult job for patent examiners.
The patent applicant has a duty to disclose any relevant art “material to patentability”. And if you fail to disclose this information then your patent may be found invalid and unenforceable. In practice this rarely happens because to do a complete search of the prior art is almost impossible. The best one could hope for is a patent search plus pertinent technical journals. Equally relevant is any public information including product literature, brochures, trade publications, press releases and of course anything posted on the Internet.
Wikinvents expects that you have reviewed the prior art and have followed the contribution guidelines and have posted any relevant prior art found in the public domain.
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