On 19 Jul 2004, at 6:13 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Sunday, July 18, 2004, at 10:23 AM, Stuart Saunders wrote:
Apple's non solicited ideas agreement is totally unacceptable 'What's mine is mine, what's yours is mine, and I can even give what was yours to someone else if I want to' Check it out.
And of course they don't accept inventors Confidential Disclosure Agreements.
They are simply covering their asses.
I understand that they need to cover their asses. But they don't need to be so apparently unreasonable. I have asked my government to make such 'agreements' illegal.
I look forward to the day we have a Standard Confidential Disclosure Agreement negotiated between say Chamber of Manufacturers or like and e.g. Inventors Association.
This is an active engineering research area for them, and they don't want you coming back in ten years and suing them because they developed something *like* your invention.
There is nothing like my invention.
I didn't mention that according to the information I have about water cooling, my system has about double the performance. Anybody have a figure for delta T �C/W for the water cooled g5?
Very few corporations will accept unsolicited technology submissions, much like very few movie production companies will accept unsolicited scripts.
You want to sell your script? Get an agent. Then, at least they know they're dealing with a professional.
You want to sell your invention?
Get a patent, then set up a corporation to license the technology, and you'll find that they are generally more willing to deal. Expensive? Yep, it is. If it's as truly revolutionary as you say it is, though, it's worth the investment; licensing fees for it from a few large corporations could make you a wealthy man.
I have no faith in the patent system. It is said that it costs about
15,000 US to get a US patent. It is also said that 97% of inventions fail
to return this expense.
In my country even the patent office quotes a figure of 99%.
Having had other promising inventions denied patents by hostile patent
offices using obviousness as a "means of denial of last resort", I am
reluctant to push good money after bad.
If you get a patent, do you know what it is? Simply a license to sue! Spend more money.
Until the (total) patent system becomes less of a rip off of inventors, I will do my best to encourage other inventors to 'fuhgetaboutit'.
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