The website helps these companies establish "prior art", preventing others from filing patents for similar concepts, and thus avoiding future disputes. Google incentivizes its employees to post their inventions on TDCommons by offering a $1,000 bonus for each idea shared, along with a shareable link to showcase their otherwise confidential work.
Key takeaways:
- Google engineers have proposed a generative AI bot that can take over video call presentations when the speaker is nervous.
- The idea was shared on TDCommons.org, a little-known website owned and funded by Google, where companies share potentially valuable ideas that are not worth patenting.
- Other companies, including HP, Cisco, and Visa, also post their inventions on the website, establishing "prior art" to prevent others from filing similar patents.
- Google incentivizes its employees to post their inventions on TDCommons by offering a $1,000 bonus for each invention, along with a shareable link to their work.