Without any legal education myself, doesn't sharing the idea in public before the patent's submitted invalidate it?
I've spoken to a patents lawyer before and he told me to be careful about this sort of thing. There was some anecdote I'm too lazy to look up about the inventor of the windsurfer and how he didn't get the patent because he tried the prototype on a lake near a public campsite or something. Showing the invention in public puts it in the public domain I think?
Hope this isn't the case for you. You might need to delete your old posts though.
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Without any legal education myself, doesn't sharing the idea in public before the patent's submitted invalidate it?
I've spoken to a patents lawyer before and he told me to be careful about this sort of thing. There was some anecdote I'm too lazy to look up about the inventor of the windsurfer and how he didn't get the patent because he tried the prototype on a lake near a public campsite or something. Showing the invention in public puts it in the public domain I think?
Hope this isn't the case for you. You might need to delete your old posts though.
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