So I came up with a business model which I believe has never been tried before. I've explained it to a handful of people that I trust and it blew their minds. If I am right it would blow the fuck out of some of the very large corporations and make small

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Anonymous 08/23/17 (Wed) 13:14:07 ed3a61 No.2033

So I came up with a business model which I believe has never been tried before. I've explained it to a handful of people that I trust and it blew their minds. If I am right it would blow the fuck out of some of the very large corporations and make small businesses much more profitable. If such an idea were novel would it be patentable? Is there any way to go about patents without risking intellectual rape? The reason I am thinking about patenting it is so that I could start said business as a proof of concept and then license the business model out on an open source basis.

Anonymous 08/23/17 (Wed) 18:12:44 305581 No.2034

>>2033

>license

>open-source

Those are mutually exclusive.

According to a quick web search, and a large legal filing and processing website, a person who

>"invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent."

I bolded what I think applies to your question.

If you think it's worthy of a patent, talk to a patent lawyer.

They might charge you or provide the information free regarding whether your process is patentable.

Anonymous 08/23/17 (Wed) 18:14:10 305581 No.2035

>>2034

whoops

spoiler does not equal bold

It says process.

Anonymous 08/23/17 (Wed) 20:03:41 ed3a61 No.2036

>>2034

It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. I was thinking along the lines of patenting it so that shit heads can not get ahold of it while giving out licenses as part of a grant program in order to circumvent any applicable laws.

>talk to a patent lawyer

A month or two ago there were some anons claiming to be patent lawyers, wonder if they are still around.

Anonymous 08/30/17 (Wed) 16:36:06 3b951c No.2045

>>2034

Open source and license are not exclusive, that's why you have terms like Free Libre Open Source Software, and just Open Source.

If you license open source, the license holder can usually see the code, and or make changes based on restrictions of the license, and probably not share it, based on restrictions of the license.

OP may be able to "license" out an idea like software you can read the code for, but the license would prohibit sharing. Could sue for breach of contract. It's not uncommon for business deals to include things like "you won't take xyz action as a business for abc years."