On 3/4/20 2:30 PM, Michael Bretti wrote:
4. How can open source innovation be protected? Especially in my case were I am working on very high-tech systems in a highly competitive, and normally very secretive and non-transparent field, how can I make sure that I get credit, or protect myself from others patenting my designs, and ultimately using them against me, or worst case, completely legally locking me out of working on them myself?
Publish, publish, publish. The better-known your innovation becomes, the harder it is for someone to take credit from you or patent your design.
Basically, be successful. That works for two reasons. First, that's what you want to do. Second, the more successful you are, the less likely it will be that someone will try to steal your ideas. They'll think they can do better than you. They'll view your ideas as a challenge to them, and they will be unwilling to use your ideas. Lastly, if your idea is *really* good, you'll have to push it on people.
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