Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Open patent


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The result was   keep. HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   18:04, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Open patent

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This article's subject does not appear to meet notability or reliable sources. It might be worth a sentence or two, however, in Open hardware. — Preceding nomination made by 14:35, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment there appears to be non-trivial coverage in books: Social informatics:an information society for all? : in remembrance of Rob Kling : proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC7), IFIP TC 9, Maribor, Slovenia, September 21-23, 2006 pp.181-182 ; The Law and Theory of Trade Secrecy: A Handbook of Contemporary Research pp.253-254 . Google scholar also gives a couple of papers which I do not have access to.  Cusop Dingle (talk) 18:27, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm sure it would be helpful to the article to add those as references.--Nowa (talk) 18:56, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 23:49, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 23:49, 15 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Weak keep - 18 to 20 years ago, when I took patent law classes in law school, I'd not heard of the term, but in the past seven years, it has become used in the literature. Whether there's enough yet for an article, I'm not sure. Bearian (talk) 20:29, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep It would seem that there is such a concept being discussed in patent law, especially in books rather than online sources, but better documentation is needed to keep the article at this time. --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:56, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep This is a real thing. Various big companies get in the news for this also, such as IBM .  Click the Google news archive search, and there are others.   D r e a m Focus  01:16, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I would suggest merging the content to patentleft. It seems to be exactly the same concept. --Edcolins (talk) 18:16, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree. It's interesting that patent left seems mostly related to bio type inventions.--Nowa (talk) 18:40, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
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