Re: [Keelynet] Public domain releases

[T. Bastian]

What will happen is NOTHING... If an item is already patented then its 
already public domain.. A patent just insures that the inventor has sole 
manufacturing and profit rights to the idea for the patent duration.. If 
you don't make any money on the idea when you give it away then nothing 
happens... I don't know why people think an idea becomes secret when its 
patented because it doesn't..

T Bastian


At 04:16 AM 10/30/2005, A. Hitt wrote:
Hi everyone on keeleynet,
    Just wanted to know if any of you know what happens if you accidently
release to the public domain an invention that someone else has already
patented or that is similar enough to cause a lawsuit. I want to release the
entire design for my automobile drive when it is done along with working
blueprints to the public domain.