Patent Pandas

Learn about patents with stories and pandas

[Patent Pandas @Patentpandas]

Calling all creators! We made https://t.co/DWQUnwH3Bg to help everyone understand patent law - with panda comics! - and connect inventors with free legal support. Know your rights so you can be free to innovate! https://t.co/0M9weMyM1G #patentpandas

[Patent Pandas @Patentpandas]

Creator @qijie shares her patent stories via https://t.co/mxky3Pd0jj at @ArsElectronica. Many thanks to @BKCHarvard and @medialab for supporting us!

[Patent Pandas @Patentpandas]

We are honored to receive an @ArsElectronica STARTS Prize 2019 Nomination! Much <3 to the lawyers out there who are volunteering their efforts to help inventors and artists! https://t.co/zlvCZsmYxI @medialab @BKCHarvard @qijie @mayqi6 @jamesira

[Patent Pandas @Patentpandas]

@ScarceSam @donttrythis @qijie Especially this page: https://t.co/DV1w7jFLz9

[Make Magazin @MakeMagazinDE]

Gleich auf zwei ihrer Elektronikprojekte wurden Patente angemeldet – mit @Patentpandas will Erfinderin @qijie jetzt Hilfestellung geben. https://t.co/RlSCIFtUsR

[MIT Media Lab @medialab]

"Even if something starts within the warm and fuzzy nest of open source, it may not stay there." @make delves into the whys and wherefores of alum @qijie's @Patentpandas project. https://t.co/hvOYXRjsiT

[Make: @make]

Jie wants to help you learn about patents, so you can avoid the frustrations she's had https://t.co/Btiy3qFxNW

[Patent Pandas @Patentpandas]

@adorasv @make Thanks for sharing out our story and highlighting how we can all help by learning! :)

[Adora Svitak 邹奇奇 @adorasv]

What do you do when someone tries to patent your idea? I wrote about @Patentpandas for @Make https://t.co/Bz9fkiS3HM

[Patent Pandas @Patentpandas]

@adafruit @sparkfun @ohsummit

[Patent Pandas @Patentpandas]

Hey Makers! Do you have a story where you wanted to share something openly just to find that someone else patented it (like https://t.co/h0qx5avTQu)? Please DM! By working together, we can keep our work free and open for everyone to enjoy! @make @makerfaire

[Adora Svitak 邹奇奇 @adorasv]

TIL patent law is super important & some people / big companies (COUGH Google) run roughshod over other people & their original work. @qijie had it happen to her (https://t.co/3tdr3OKgdP …), then launched an awesome site called Patent Pandas to change things - check it out!

[qijie @qijie]

Holy wow indeed! Worth reading the original story about a humble bikini... And truly, perhaps there is hope for truth and fairness in the end (at least it's worth fighting for :) 👙🐼@Patentpandas

[Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society @BKCHarvard]

Have you heard of @Patentpandas yet? A new tool from @qijie and others for for everyday inventors explaining how the patent system works. https://t.co/vyxlQK8iJ7

[qijie @qijie]

@MauiMescudi @Jennifer_Dick @Patentpandas There's also a great new project the Prior Art Archive created by @medialab, @Cisco and @uspto that lets people submit non-patent prior art that examiners will see: https://t.co/pI42bNMdB9

[qijie @qijie]

@MauiMescudi @Jennifer_Dick @Patentpandas It's true that you can patent and open license. However, I don't have the resources (patents cost easily $10,000 or more each) to patent everything I create so I opt to publish in other ways to make prior art. For about this on @Patentpandas: https://t.co/WO9ckigBHo

[Patent Pandas @Patentpandas]

"You can’t opt-out of patents. Simply being open is unfortunately not good enough to prevent trolls from patent-spamming your inventions." From @bunniestudios https://t.co/v9PMQl2Gia

[Patent Pandas @Patentpandas]

@tonyperry Thanks! :)

[Patent Pandas @Patentpandas]

@danielnazer @qijie @bunniestudios We hope that by sharing these stories, and those of other inventors, we'll help creators understand the patent system better and avoid such heartaches. Or at least know where to find legal support if it does happen!

[Daniel Nazer @danielnazer]

The patent adventures of @qijie who has now had two companies try to patent her work ... first, a crowdsourcing backer got an (invalid) patent on her and
@bunniestudios's LED stickers https://t.co/iil6ZBiybp

[bunnie @bunniestudios]

I'm so excited for this! congrats @qijie and thank you for investing so much time into this project. Anyone who makes stuff should tune in and learn about how your inventions interact with patent law. Just because you do open source doesn't mean you are protected from patent law!