http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/14/green-inventions-site-ongreen-to-be-an-ebay-for-inventors-inventor-hopes/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/14/green-inventions-site-ongreen-to-be-an-ebay-for-inventors-inventor-hopes/#comment-48393 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:35:26 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18402#comment-48393 I agree. The benefit seems to be more for the startup, that it forces inventors through the soul searching process, than for the prospective funder

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/14/green-inventions-site-ongreen-to-be-an-ebay-for-inventors-inventor-hopes/#comment-48190 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:45:02 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18402#comment-48190 The garage sale approach, where all the offerings are laid out in a big jumble, increases the work necessary to examine the submissions. GE got 3,500 ideas submitted, and quickly the old ideas got buried by the flood of new stuff, most of which looked to be of poor quality. The inventions should be classified narrowly so that interested parties may go quickly to what they are looking for. One example is the Patent Office’s Manual of Classification. The classification effort would also force the putative inventor to become aware of what else has been done in the field.

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