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>> I think some of these patents expire 2014
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>It's depressingly easy to extend the patents if some one thinks there
>is some commercial value in holding them...
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>There is entire branch of the legal profession dedicated to it these days.
Everybody's forgotten that patents were created so an *inventor*
could get paid for his work without having to switch careers -- ie,
to start a factory and turn himself into a businessman. But it
virtually never works.
Instead they're used as *business* tools to impress investors (little
patents), or hijacked to suppress priceless new technologies
(groundbreaking patents). The usually unsuspecting inventor is
manipulated out of the picture by experienced businessmen and
forgotten. A musician has more rights to his song than an inventor
has to his invention.
That's why I patent nothing and publish to the web instead. No chance
to make money... but to be realistic, there isn't anyway.
I would venture to guess that applications to extend patents never or
virtually never come from the actual inventor. But who else should be
entitled to apply?
--- Department of Progress ---
I've proposed a government "Department of Progress" or "Department of
Patent Administration" that would hold all patents and collect
royalties on behalf of inventors (and to fund the department itself
without taxation), as well as to solicit and fund development work
contributing to national goals like sustainability, so often given
lip service to and voted for in legislatures, but presently with no
department administering them and carrying out the program, in any
country.
Only when businesses are up against the government will they
recognize royalties on patents as a legit business expense, and they
won't be able to 'acquire' patents to prevent progress.
The country that starts this first will find inventors flocking to
file patents there, and will be enormously strengthened by exports of
new technology products made by the progressive industries that will
surely take root.
This idea is mentioned in a couple of places in Turquoise Energy News.
Craig
http://www.TurquoiseEnergy.com/
http://www.saers.com/recorder/craig/TurquoiseEnergyNews/
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