"Patents" have become more about protection by intimidation than any
thing else...and a basis for a brag.
I think you'll find several on the same basic silver/aluminum idea, none of
which will hold up to scrutiny or challenge, with the original idea being
decades old, out of renewal date limits and in the public domain, if it
was ever patented at all.
The discoverer of Penicillin purposefully DIDN'T patent that discovery with
the INTENTION of it being in the public domain.
If that did what was intended, then anything you see before a patent is
filed, makes a patent filed on it worthless in every respect except for the
purposes of intimidation or making a brag.
Actually getting the patent approved is merely a reflection of the degree
of ignorance of the office workers that approve it, or a lawyers ability to
confuse them into thinking it's new.
Hit the online patent office and read a few. MY GOSH, what
bullshit. Thousands of words that say almost nothing.
9 out of 9.1 that are completely irrelevant or are nothing more than a
wordy description of a worn out "old hat" being called a new something else
because the dust on it was made to look different.
With millions of patents filed and almost identical in principle products
all over the place, how many ever go to dispute? Almost zero? Then how
many disputes are won? Almost zero again.
Another common trick is the "Pat Pend" sticker. Meaning, you did or
intend to file for a patent.
It doesn't matter if you get one or not, the sticker does the same
thing. It's a mental copy deterrence and a bragging vehicle with a sticky
backing.
If the sticker has a Pat Pend "number", that just means it has been filed,
but may sit in a folder for centuries waiting for lawyers to get paid, or
may have been rejected. Rejected or not, the number is valid whether or not
it's still pending. [If the number wasn't just pulled out of an old hat ]
If it was filed with a lawyer, or a cousin, or the family dog...it was
filed. If it hasn't been granted, it's pending.
[Brag] We have a patent and we have a product.
Never mind that the patent has nothing to do with the product or that we
don't say *what* patent so you can find that out.
I intend to patent the wheel. I'm pretty sure that cave men didn't.
Be looking for my sticker.
Next, the stick.
Maybe the Ion [oops, Saturn did that already? ]
Copyrights....a whole 'nother story.
Ode
At 10:25 AM 7/12/2007 -0400, you wrote:
CWFugitt wrote:
Evening Marshal,
The socks contain silver and another metal, such as aluminum, such that
when they become moist, create a current that makes ionic silver and
colloidal silver on the spot.
That sounds high tech and efficient.
Can't you figure out the process so we could all do it?
From what I understand, all that is done is that the fabric has silver
and aluminum fibers woven into it at the time of weaving. Then the sock
is made normally. Not really high tech, but weaving the fabric and
making the sock would be a lot more wok then the cost. of purchasing it
made in Hong Kong by machines.
Or, ........would that be patent infringement?
I don't think there is a patent on it. I have not seen any patent
references, and since it follows on the work of Robert Becker who
published the information on it a decade or so ago, is probably not
patentable at all.
Marshall
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