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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic
If you post a truly novel, patentable idea, on a public forum, then any chance you had of getting a patent just vanished.
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Any revealing of the novelty, which is the only patentable part of any design, without a non-disclosure agreement signed by the party to be made witness of the "novelty" could kill the process, unless you have documentation of the originality of the novelty before the NDA was ever issued.
regards
Mech
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That doesn't make much sense to me. But perhaps it makes no sense because I'm not a lawyer. It seemed to me that establishing provenance would be a smart way to go, and one way I've heard of doing that is to send copies of all the relevant materials to yourself by registered mail, thus establishing a auditable timeline.
I can see how discussing an invention in an open forum would hamstring future claims of exclusivity, but wouldn't it also make it difficult for others to claim ownership as well?
Well crap I guess I just answered my own questions and figured stuff out for myself. I'm a little addled today.
Sorry, OT.