On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mary Yugo <maryyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I dont even have the money to build one! And I have no patent, there is >>> nothing I can do about it. . . . >> >> > >> Sure. Show me it works and I'll make you a zillionaire and it won't be >> difficult. > > > It would be very difficult. If you have no patent, anyone is free to take > the idea from you. > > If you know of a way to make money with an idea that anyone is free to use > without paying, please tell us what that is. > > > >> That's why I have so much trouble understanding all the weirdness and >> reluctance surrounding Rossi. >> > > - > It is not weird at all. He has no patent protection. Anyone in business > would be reluctant to reveal the idea or encourage competition in his > position. > What Rossi could do would be twofold. First, ally himself with some deep pockets. Given a convincing demo in the course of a "due diligence" examination, that should be easy. A lot of comparatively humanitarian wealthy people would love to have more money to control and perhaps donate. I can name a half dozen without too much thinking and so can you. And there'd be more than plenty left over for Rossi. Second, he should file a PROPER patent application including disclosure and then start selling the devices. Then, if someone infringes, he sues them. All sorts of suits like this in the past have succeeded -- some big time and against huge companies for example the classic suit against GM about wind shield wiper intermittent circuits which was made into an interesting movie. What we're supposed to believe is that Rossi's selling E-cats now to some unnamed military and some unnamed client with the totally inadequate patent filings he's made. That is really dangerous to his IP. Anyway, proving that his device is real and/or having independent testing as a black box involves no risk to his IP at all. Universities handle classified research without leaks all the time -- it's routine. So wrong about the patent and wrong about the risk and Rossi's risk, if he really sold 14 machines anyway, could not be bigger.
