[HH] invalidating patents with prior art

[Tom Metro]

A blog posting suggesting you should publish all the ideas you can think
of that you don't intend to commercially exploit yourself so as to
create "prior art" that can be used to invalidate patents. Not exactly a
novel idea, but further down the author lists a bunch of 3D printing
related ideas, some of which are interesting.


First to File? Nah, First to Blog!
http://blog.makezine.com/2013/05/02/first-to-file-nah-first-to-blog/

  As much as I dislike patents and the culture of intellectual property,
  the cold hard fact is that patents are real and they are here to stay.
  Now, there are a few ways to handle this... Another way is to use the
  system to defeat itself. Now, the patent system has the concept of
  prior art built into it. I'm not a lawyer but my understanding is that
  the minimum requirement for creating prior art is to publicly publish
  it.
  ...
  Like most people out there, I sometimes have more ideas than time to
  implement them. So instead of keeping those ideas locked in a notebook
  somewhere unaccessible and not serving a purpose, I'm going to release
  them into the world as public domain in the hope that they might
  inspire, or at a very minimum keep an idea from being patented.


 -Tom