Comments on: Idea exchanges, collaborative inventing, and prior art http://www.patentauthority.com/idea-exchanges-collaborative-inventing-and-prior-art/ Patents, News, and Intellectual Property Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:05:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Idea exchanges, collaborative inventing, and prior art by: Tom G. http://www.patentauthority.com/idea-exchanges-collaborative-inventing-and-prior-art/#comment-704 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:25:05 +0000 http://www.patentauthority.com/idea-exchanges-collaborative-inventing-and-prior-art/#comment-704 Regarding invention idea banks or exchanges - · Do you know of any one web-tool that searches all the idea banks at once? This concept might be similar to esp@cenet® searching multiple country patent databases at once. · In addition, do you know of any one web-tool that a person could submit ideas for inventions to multiple idea banks at the same time? This concept might be similar to e-filing one EP or PCT patent application for multiple countries. · Lastly, do you know of any one web-tool that alerts others of newly published ideas for inventions for a given topic? This concept might be similar to existing commercial patent alert tools that lets others know of recently published patent applications and grants. If these tools exist, would you please give me the link to them? If not, do you know of anyone working to develop these tools? Feel free to pass this note along to others who might be interested. Maybe computer science or patent law students looking for a project? Let me know if I can help on this. Thanks! Tom G. TG Ideas LLC Ideas Blog - http://tgideas.blogspot.com/ Website - www.athenet.net/~ideas E-Mail - tgideas@athenet.net Regarding invention idea banks or exchanges -

· Do you know of any one web-tool that searches all the idea banks at once? This concept might be similar to esp@cenet® searching multiple country patent databases at once.

· In addition, do you know of any one web-tool that a person could submit ideas for inventions to multiple idea banks at the same time? This concept might be similar to e-filing one EP or PCT patent application for multiple countries.

· Lastly, do you know of any one web-tool that alerts others of newly published ideas for inventions for a given topic? This concept might be similar to existing commercial patent alert tools that lets others know of recently published patent applications and grants.

If these tools exist, would you please give me the link to them? If not, do you know of anyone working to develop these tools? Feel free to pass this note along to others who might be interested. Maybe computer science or patent law students looking for a project? Let me know if I can help on this.

Thanks!

Tom G.
TG Ideas LLC
Ideas Blog - http://tgideas.blogspot.com/
Website - www.athenet.net/~ideas
E-Mail - tgideas@athenet.net

]]> Comment on Idea exchanges, collaborative inventing, and prior art by: Norm http://www.patentauthority.com/idea-exchanges-collaborative-inventing-and-prior-art/#comment-325 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:22:53 +0000 http://www.patentauthority.com/idea-exchanges-collaborative-inventing-and-prior-art/#comment-325 These sites are part of our regular search strategy and have helped in more than a few invalidity searches. It would appear these sites would also serve the same purpose as IP.com as a means for a company to disclose information that they may not want to patent but would like to prevent others from patenting as well. These sites are part of our regular search strategy and have helped in more than a few invalidity searches. It would appear these sites would also serve the same purpose as IP.com as a means for a company to disclose information that they may not want to patent but would like to prevent others from patenting as well.

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