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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>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? I’ve been curious about this.<BR>
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-Maureen<BR>
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On 4/16/07 8:34 AM, "Reshma Shetty" <rshetty@mit.edu> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>>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.<BR>
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On 4/16/07, <B>tk@csail.mit.edu</B> < tk@csail.mit.edu <a href="mailto:tk@csail.mit.edu"><mailto:tk@csail.mit.edu></a> > wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>The patent office has decided wikis are not good information sources. <BR>
This likely has implications to users doing lab notebooks etc. in a<BR>
wiki like format.<BR>
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<a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1168336936842">http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1168336936842</a><BR>
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