Unpatent database - idea #5073

Having just ranted on AC/OS about unpatents I thought I'd do one of my regular Google searches for "unpatent" I came across an entry in a web site called the "Global Ideas Bank". The entry was for an unpatent registry and described pretty much the same idea that I have been going on about here under the name of "unpatent database".

Ironically it turns out that the unpatent registry idea is logged as #5073 in the Global Ideas Bank, a site that is really already effectively an unpatent registry - they just don't present and package it as such and call their unpatents "social inventions". When you look at the GIBs about pages you'll see they describe objectives very much intune with the reasons I described for creating the unpatent database. With some more publicity and perhaps a few more formal requirements about content and standard of ideas it could be exactly what I described as the "unpatent database".

Furthermore I think its brilliant that the Global Ideas Bank already contains an entry for the unpatent database - it illustrates my point beautifully, that any obvious idea has probably already been thought of by someone else, and even if it hasn't someone else will do eventually. This is the very definition of "obvious" and the very criterion that should tell us an idea is not, and should not be patentable. Hence the unpatent database should very definitely contain an entry for... the unpatent database!