Questions tagged [defensive-publications]

Publications used to put teachings into the public domain to prevent future patents in that subject matter.

There have been a number of methods for preventing a patent from issuing for a given invention. Defensive Publications and Statutory invention registrations are two.

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How to make an invention un-patentable easily?

It appears that the USPTO no longer does defensive publications, but instead you're supposed to abandon a patent application. But that will still incur filing fees, etc. I figure an obscure blog post is not likely to be seen by the patent…

defensive-publications

asked Sep 07 '12 at 15:24

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