In exchange for a small royalty fee, the State could provide free patent services. The royalties would affirm the existence of a collective intelligence or what the artist Brian Eno calls "scenius" from which an individual genius emerges.
Brian Eno on genius vs “scenius”: I was an art student and, like all art students, I was encouraged to believe that there were a few great figures like Picasso and Kandinsky, Rembrandt and Giotto and so on who sort-of appeared out of nowhere and produced artistic revolution. As I looked at art more and more, I discovered that that wasn’t really a true picture. What really happened was that there was sometimes very fertile scenes involving lots and lots of people – some of them artists, some of them collectors, some of them curators, thinkers, theorists, people who were fashionable and knew what the hip things were – all sorts of people who created a kind of ecology of talent. And out of that ecology arose some wonderful work. The period that I was particularly interested in, ’round about the Russian revolution, shows this extremely well. So I thought that originally those few individuals who’d survived in history – in the sort-of “Great Man” theory of history – they were called “geniuses”. But what I thought was interesting was the fact that they all came out of a scene that was very fertile and very intelligent. So I came up with this word “scenius” – and scenius is the intelligence of a whole… operation or group of people. And I think that’s a more useful way to think about culture, actually. I think that – let’s forget the idea of “genius” for a little while, let’s think about the whole ecology of ideas that give rise to good new thoughts and good new work." Harry On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Lennart Thornros <[email protected]> wrote: > Russ, > I think you are justified and I understand your frustration. > I just cannot forego the chance to once again point out that patents and > patent applications, which might have been of value 150 years ago, are a > totally obsolete institution that only feeds lawyer in all ends. > > I am glad I do not have to pay those lawyers. Maybe you can get an ambulance > chaser to sue on behalf of everybody(class action) on contingency. > Good Luck (as they say in Vegas.) > > Best Regards , > Lennart Thornros > > > [email protected] > +1 916 436 1899 > > Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and > enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass. (PJM) > > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Russ George <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The momentum in cold fusion as recently illustrated by Homlid’s >> astonishing and unexpected findings, Piantelli’s new patent fought through >> with success in Europe, and of course the cat and mouse game of Rossi have >> got me agitated… hence I am asking for those like me with inventions and >> claims wrongfully and woefully denied by the US Patent office over the >> decades to lend a hand to see if we have sufficient numbers to do something >> to put the USPTO into real heavy water! >> >> >> http://atom-ecology.russgeorge.net/2016/04/19/cold-fusion-class-action-lawsuit-puts-uspto-in-heavy-water/ > >
