Requirement
4. What is worth sharing, and one invention nobody patented
Required
Discuss which types of invention are appropriate to share with others and why, then tell your counselor about one UNPATENTED invention and its impact on society.
Notes and warnings
Note. The second half of this requirement is the harder one: one UNPATENTED invention and its impact on society. Plenty of important things were never patented, deliberately or otherwise, and picking one is the whole exercise.
Where this step comes from
- Inventing Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-12-31), Requirement 4