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'Dark Intellectual Property': Why We Need a Kickstarter for Patents

You’ve heard of the “deep web,” the content that’s behind firewalls or paywalls or that’s otherwise un-indexable by search engines. You also may have heard of “dark social,” the vast trove of social traffic that’s invisible to most analytics programs. Deep web, dark social, and dark IP all highlight the fact that our ability to catch so much in the net by dragging the surface actually still misses the invisible wealth of what lies beneath. An astonishing 65 percent of invention disclosure bundles remain, on average, unlicensed and unused each year.But dark IP is different than the other hidden-depths knowledge since it’s also unfair. Arbesman is the author of ** and blogs for Wired Science on.||| Let's Help the Street Find Uses for IP Why does so much intellectual property languish on the shelf?

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