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Idea District #190

Open veqtor opened 7 years ago

veqtor commented 7 years ago

Name: Ideality?

Purpose: Protect decentralized innovation from patent-trolls and centralized corporations

Description: Idea district is a district that can be used to protect ideas from being patented and if needed, collectively patent important innovations.

An idea registered within the "idea district", creates a license, that lets the district, token holders, and idea-"backers" work on an idea before possibly submitting a patent.

Licenses could be CC or various schemes that let indie's or non-profits use an idea for free but have a large corporation like apple have to pay if they use it.

Idea district would benefit from the blockchain time-stamping an idea, making it a persistent time record of its inception.

Incentivisation model:

When an idea is first created, it could start as simple as a one-line statement of intent, such as: One-click-buy

Token holders could back an idea, have designers, lawyers and engineers create a patent application and design document.

Really important ideas could also be patented by the community and have the backing token-holders receive licensing fees. The token holders backing an idea would effectively own the patent together.

Patents could, this way, be tokenized.

If a large corporation is seen infringing on or trying to patent an idea registered in this district, a crowdfunding project could be created that would launch a lawsuit against the infringing entity.

Note:

This is not a fully fleshed out proposal, but I had this idea when I was thinking about ways of protecting ideas, such as UX-flows, from patent-trolls and Apple. This district-proposal is just a small draft, I would really like help developing this idea. Suggestions?

ETH Adress: 0xBB69b1DBecfBafF7E4F8c9636b322b7a85c58479

Bradymck commented 7 years ago

There is an idea district for curating ideas. May have some overlap possibly. Take a look: https://github.com/district0x/district-proposals/issues/11