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[morwen]

Given how software patents turned out (we are still mopping up the damage and it has set technology back years) perhaps someone should start a website accepting user submissions for specific ideas for how 3D printers and other rapid manufacturing technology could be used in the future; so that when these parasites start patenting things that can be predicted in 2013, then they can be shut down by pointing to this as evidence of quite how obvious they were.

Thoughts, anyone? Maybe this already exists?

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[morwen]

Heh.

I think for the benefit of the future, we should actually prove that a human can invent this stuff. We need to be as clear as possible to future patent trolls that this stuff was trivial to think of now, not just have it coincidentally in an automatically generated list...

[pseudomonas]

I wonder if an automatically-generated list would be legally-enforceable as prior art.