Website Attempts To Generate Every Possible Patentable Invention (allpriorart.com)

An anonymous reader writes: All Prior Art is a project attempting to algorithmically create and publicly publish all possible new prior art, thereby making the published concepts not patent-able. The concept is to democratize ideas and to preempt patent trolls. The work is released on-line and in files of 10,000 ideas under a creative commons license. The system works by pulling text from the entire database of US issued and published (un-approved) patents and creating prior art from the patent language. While most inventions generated will be nonsensical, the cost to computationally create and publish millions of ideas is nearly zero -- which allows for a higher probability of possible valid prior art.

Comments

Won't help

[GameboyRMH]

Prior art has never been a hindrance before...

Re:Time to Rethink Patent and Copyright Law

[LynnwoodRooster]

The Constitution sets up the patent system. Yes, it's Constitutional law. But the GP has it correct - I am one of those inventors (18 granted so far), and I license them out for very low rates. Provable, measurable improvements, but trivial to copy/implement because it's mechanical in nature. Companies big and small (licensees run from one-man shops to Microsoft) license it for fractions of a percent of the value - and I make a decent income by volume. Consumer gets the benefits, manufacturer/brand gets the benefits, and I (the inventor) get the benefits. What's the downside?