Patent Pandas

Having run into some patent misadventures of our own, we discovered that there are not enough resources out there explaining how the patent system works for everyday inventors. So we made our own!

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Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

20181,798 points487 commentscited by 7Tech Industry & Business details

Openly sharing your work brings more attention to it, which is good, right? The answer, for me though, is often “it’s complicated.” This is what happened when I went to visit a giant tech company, in hopes for collaboration, but later found that they tried to patent some of my research instead!

Crowdfunding Backer Patented My Project

2018171 points79 comments Tech Industry & Business details

I never thought about patents much. I just wanted to make stuff and share it with others.  Then one day someone else patented my work.