On 20 Nov 2006 11:57:11 -0800, "The Flavored Coffee Guy"
<elgersmad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>After all of my years posting on the internet, I have discovered that
>this is no longer a safe place to discuss ideas. I have posted many
>many ideas, and public access information does not allow for concept
>patents to exist. A concept patent is the basic description of a
>device. For example patenting a statement like this one: a rotory
>motor that uses electromagnets and brushes to maintain the attraction
>or repulsion of several or more permenant magnets to keep the rotor in
>motion and provide mechanical power to a drive shaft.
>
>Some-one is mining the newsgroups, and patenting anything and every
>idea mentioned on the internet. I know that it is an invention
>submission company, and a series of patent attorneys that are doing
>this. But, they are only literally establi****ng concept patents. This
>means, that if you can find the post in the newsgroup that pre-dates
>their application for a patent, you can prove that the information is
>public access, and was and void the concept patent. Once, the concept
>patent is voided, a device patent can then be applied for, and the
>attorney cannot demand royalties. The theory behind a television set
>and how it works is public access, and anyone can design and build a
>television. Any time the entire concept or theory behind how a device
>works becomes public access information before a patent is applied for,
>the concept patent is null or void, and only the device patents are
>acceptable.
>
>You see newsgroups, and the News. If an inventor tells the world via
>the news how his new device works, and it wasn't patented, he cannot
>apply for a concept patent. In that case, no-one can. All the
>individual has done, is for all practical purposes is fire a starting
>gun, and allow for competition.
Such amateurs! The key phrase is "reduction to practice" ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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