The OpenTech database, created as a project with The Foresight Institute , is aimed at helping to protect open source software and other ideas by preventing them from being patented. The database is comprised of individual technical disclosures describing ideas and inventions. By publishing a technical disclosure on an invention, it becomes a part of the worldwide public knowledge referred to as prior art.
Prior art can prevent patents from being granted on the same or related inventions.
Buy a document and use the OpenTech publishing process. Join worldwide patent offices and corporations and search the defensive publication database for prior art. Take a look at our most recent publications list. Visit the PriorArt.org site to learn more about technical disclosures and the OpenTech Database. If you have additional questions, please contact us .