I do have to agree with Cathal that all this talk about patenting *is* a distraction, and we should just get on with the biohacking. And in an ideal world, where Prior Art works the way it should, we should dump all this paranoia, get shit done, and paste it all over the interwebs.
-- The scenario where some other commercial entity could claim IP rights on the work we've done is a very real one though. Just have a look at how many groups are currently working on various forms of in-vitro meat, and who owns which patents around that.
However, our best protection right now *is* to actually get the work done. Until we've proven "Reduction to Practice", none of these ideas are patentable anyway, no matter how well they've been worked out on paper.
It's also worth pointing out that we have a fairly large and heterogeneous group of people involved, and not surprisingly we have a range of viewpoints on this issue just within our own group. We've definitely had a few people say "you should totally do a startup around this, but you'll never get any investors if you don't protect your IP". And if we had more common sense / desire to get rich fast - yeah, that would probably be the way to do it. We've also had plenty of people take Cathal's stance of "fuck the patents, let's do some biohacking, and collaborate with anyone who is interested" - I'm more in that camp myself.
By the way, it's not as if we've made a firm decision on going the "file and abandon" route. We've taken a straw poll on the matter, and more people approved of that solution than any of the others. But I expect it will be largely up to whomever feels most passionate about this (e.g. Marc) to actually put in the time and effort to go that route.
But for now - yeah, let's get the work done first, because without that we don't have squat anyway.
Patrik
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