Depatent helps inventors choose between filing a patent and putting an idea on the public record. A published disclosure gets its own public page, a DOI (a permanent citation link), an RFC 3161 timestamp (a trusted-time proof) and a web archive copy. Capture the idea by voice in the Patentomania iPhone app. A tool, not legal advice.
A patent gives you exclusive rights but costs money and time, and the application becomes public anyway. Publishing gives up exclusivity and puts the idea on record. Depatent lays the trade-off out so you choose on purpose.
A published disclosure gets a stable page and a machine-readable JSON copy, so examiners, researchers and search engines can find it. You choose the licence and whether your name appears.
Each publication is meant to carry a DOI, an RFC 3161 timestamp token you can download and verify independently, and a web archive copy. The page shows which of these exist for that publication.
Describe the invention by voice in the Patentomania iPhone app and turn it into a structured draft you can review, edit and decide what to do with. Nothing is published until you say so.
Record yourself explaining the invention in the Patentomania app. You get a draft to read through and correct.
Compare filing a patent with a defensive publication for this particular idea, then decide. Depatent does not decide for you.
If you publish, the disclosure goes public with a DOI, a trusted timestamp and an archive copy, so there is a dated public record of what you described.
Depatent is a defensive-publication service by Agonist Development AB. Not legal advice and not a law firm; talk to a patent attorney about your own situation.
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