User: failurite

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On: How To Vet Clever Ideas Without Giving Them Away?

I think there needs to be a web site that allows people to post ideas freely. The concept would be that by posting an idea you put it into the public domain which gives you one year (if I understand patent law correctly) to patent it. The website would offer advice and help on getting a patent. You would have an easy way to post your idea, along with schematics or diagrams, and more importantly the fuzzy details that might be missing that require subject matter experts. There would then be a wiki like way for people to add to an idea with their expertise and the idea owner can then accept or reject that feedback and the idea would mature through that feedback. Hopefully it would mature enough to have enough info to patent or prototype. This would also be a good way to find potential partners for a startup, since most startups wonâ(TM)t be successful without subject matter experts. I have a specific ui in mind for this type of site but in general I envision each submittal looking sort of like a light weight patent submittal with affordances to attach videos, diagrams, etc. failurite@gmail.com