Would an effort to publish non-patended and original ideas online be a plausible measure to "fight" patents? One could have an online community of people working together to come up with the ideas that could be patented and publish the idea before these mega-companies claim ownership of the idea and file them away to rot. Once it's "out there" it can't be patented, right?
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Would an effort to publish non-patended and original ideas online be a plausible measure to "fight" patents? One could have an online community of people working together to come up with the ideas that could be patented and publish the idea before these mega-companies claim ownership of the idea and file them away to rot. Once it's "out there" it can't be patented, right?