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Has anyone tried doing that without LLMs? Could you make a GitHub repo under MIT license and just let people add a list of ideas to serve as prior art?
by choxi 3y ago
Has anyone tried doing that without LLMs? Could you make a GitHub repo under MIT license and just let people add a list of ideas to serve as prior art?
- riskable 3y agoIdeas can't be prior art. Only specific implementations of ideas can be (patented).
- pfdietz 3y agoPatents can cover generalizations, not specific implementations. If it were the latter we wouldn't have all these obnoxious software patents. However, a specific implementation in prior art can prevent a generalization that includes that specific implementation from being patentable. As a result, patents tend to become more and more specific over time, hemmed in by prior art.
- pfdietz 3y agoCorporations have long had house journals where they publish inventions they didn't patent, just to ensure no one else patents them. I think AT&T in particular had one of these.