[hansel_der]

> Should I be disallowed to commercialise it?

ofc not

but since noone can ever prove that his was the first incarnation of an idea, nobody can be criminalized for also doing things in a certain way.

the concept of protecting invention for some time to facilitate reward is not without merit, but the implementation of IP law and practise has gone so far astray that it's overdue to rethink the whole thing.