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 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
