[Ilugc] How to protect an idea from getting patented by someone?

  • From: metherid@xxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
  • Date: Sat Aug 21 00:21:53 2010

 On 08/20/2010 11:26 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote:

Friends.

Today I was discussing with my friend. His company is pushing the
employees to generate new ideas on various technologies and getting
patent for the ideas. It sells the patent to those who uses the same
idea or process.

Is there any way to prevent those companies to patent my own idea or
thought before I apply for patent?

How can I protect my work from patented by someone?

How can I give my thoughts, ideas, knowledge to public for free with
all freedom, with a protection from patent from someone?

There are multiple forms of prior art that prevents a particular process
from being patented.  If you have ideas, publish them publicly.  This is
called defensive publication

Refer to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_publication

Rahul

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