Dear AD
You are unfortunately living in an intellectual property regime that does not do proper searches before issuing patents. It is not widely known that a patent is not considered valid unless it has been upheld by an US court, which costs about $180,000. Whatever people think, that is the commercial reality in the world where real fights take place. I rarely patent inventions and often wish someone would steal the idea. They can patent it and I will keep quiet because a) they will develop the market and b) in 20 years it will be available to me again, and everyone else. Some things are not interesting to me. How many things can I afford to bring to market anyway? It takes time and energy. Remember Abbie Hoffman's book called, "Steal this Book"? Well some stovers are saying, "Steal this Stove." And when no one does...? Helping the masses is harder than that. Regards Crispin >People having loads of money use our technology and knowledge, but after they have patented their own designs, which are based on ours, they claim quite openly that the entire technology was developed by them. We have to accept this as a fact of life, because we just don't have the money to fight legal battles or to place costly advertisements in the media.
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