Just to clarify reason for asking about patents: I agree with most of what Gene says below. Patent law has become an embarrassment and serves mainly as a mechanism for trolls to exact unearned taxes from those who are doing useful things.
However, the body of patent law on a topic is a necessary legal reference point for those who are actually building useful enterprises. Also, as a post a few weeks ago mentioned, IP law about GE may assume heightened significance in the absence of a coherent governance regime. I appreciate Jim Lee's efforts to create a reasonabl(ish) list as a starting point and thank him forsharing it with the list. Andrew Lockley asked a few weeks ago "where do we need to spend money" -- maybe one answer is that a competent and neutral(ish) body needs to commission a survey or registry of IP related to GE. On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:59 AM, <euggor...@comcast.net> wrote: > Most of the patents are out of date and/or US patents. All will be out of > date by the time anyone is ready to geoengineer the climate. US patents > alone won't cut it since solutions will cross boundaries. Geoengineers > should focus on science and solutions and not look to get rich on their > inventions except in a prestige sense. Why anyone would want to patent > geoengineering solutions except for prestige is beyond me. Good > publications would be much more important. > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Chris Vivian" <chris.viv...@cefas.co.uk> > *To: *geoengineering@googlegroups.com > *Sent: *Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:10:36 AM > *Subject: *[geo] Re: good list of geoengineering patents? > > > Fred, > > This list of patents was referred to by Clive Hamilton. I don't know how > good it is. > > http://rezn8d.net/2013/04/14/climate-engineering-patents/ > > Chris. > > On Monday, 24 June 2013 21:31:49 UTC+1, Fred Zimmerman wrote: > >> has anyone got a good list of major geoengineering patents? >> >> --- >> Fred Zimmerman >> Geoengineering IT! >> Bringing together the worlds of geoengineering and information technology >> GE NewsFilter: http://geoengineeringIT.net:8080 >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
