[OWW-SC] Wikis and patents

[Maureen Hoatlin]

My understanding is that a public disclosure of an invention before filing
compromises a patent. So if you use an open wiki it would establish the date
of the invention and other details but it would also be a public disclosure.
Right? I¹ve been curious about this.

-Maureen

On 4/16/07 8:34 AM, "Reshma Shetty" <rshetty at mit.edu> wrote:

>> >From the article linked below, it sounds like the patent office no longer
>> considers Wikipedia an acceptable research source.  However, in general a lab
>> notebook is generally used to document the time and inventor of the
>> patentable invention.  So it is not clear to me that the patent office would
>> necessarily reject original invention documentation using a wiki ( i.e. lab
>> notebook) as invalid.
> 
> -Reshma
> 
> On 4/16/07, tk at csail.mit.edu < tk at csail.mit.edu <mailto:tk at csail.mit.edu> >
> wrote:
>> The patent office has decided wikis are not good information sources.
>> This likely has implications to users doing lab notebooks etc. in a
>> wiki like format.
>> 
>> http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1168336936842
>> 
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