Placing Organic Chemical Compounds in the Public Domain

Once this threshold is reached, new organic chemical compounds will become far easier to push into the public domain. Even if such novel compositions are not ruled to be generally unpatentable under the doctrine of obviousness, they will be vulnerable to being placed into the public domain by any individual publishing a sufficiently detailed map of the molecules structure and a simple set of instructions enabling construction of the molecule. The low cost of publishing over the internet paired with the plausibility of algorithmic methods of generating molecular permutations and enablement steps almost guarantee the eventual construction of a database of molecular permutations. This database, showing structure and enablement steps for a wide swath of potential organic compounds, would have the effect of rendering unpatentable every compound appearing within.