The goal is for Wikinvents will be to become a repository of inventions that are freely usable by anyone. The act of posting an invention and [time stamping] it on this site creates a filing date, or a date that your invention was posted and open for public scrutiny and use. At that date the invention is considered prior art meaning that this invention cannot be patented by anyone. This is sometimes referred to as Defensive Publishing. Inventions that are published in print cannot be patented provided these ideas are publicly available. This site is intended for that purpose.
There may be a lot of ideas that you will never want to commercialize but hope someone does just to improve every day life. Some of the best ideas come from the users of technology. End users have a unique perspective, often surpassing that of the original developers, as to product improvements or new directions. The main goals are:
- Work on inventions that benefit everyone. Massive collaboration on ideas and inventions (two (millions of) heads better than one)
- Prevent others from patenting your invention
- Post cool inventions found elsewhere (add a reference, give credit)
- Build a prior art database
- Anyone can use these inventions but please give credit and reference Wikinvents.com, Inventor and Invention in your documentation
- Educate the public on intellectual property that seems to be hampering many industries
- Post problems that should be worked on
- Offload the patent office. The U.S. patent office is overwhelmed with more than 300,000 new patent applications per year. Patents now take a few years to issue (reference).
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