>4. Patents are notoriously easy to circumvent and believe it or not some
>people/companies search the latest Patents filed to see how they can alter
>them just enough to do this so that they can rip-off the original Inventor
>(Bas###ds)...!
You can circumvent many patents because they are only improvements to the
state of the art. I have a few patents, including many ideas that I have
chose not to file on, but have taken them to market anyway. At least 65% -
75% of the patents issued are a waist of money. Fundamental innovations are
where its worth spending the money i.e. Velcro. There was a post a while
back about a NASA sponsored project that is able to store energy in the form
of a plasma without the use of a magnetic field. I read the 75 page patent
which covers batteries to cars to air / space craft. Knowing the cost of
patenting something, that was at least a $2,000,000 effort (Legal fees) for
a world wide patent.
>5. Some countries DON'T recognise the patent process (China for one)....!
China is a part of the convention now on patents. Companies in China do
still, but to a lesser extent, deliberately infringe on your patents. You
can now sue and companies have with success. (I lived in Hong Kong for 7
years - to mid 97.
Cheers,
Brian
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