Horace Heffner wrote:
On Jun 30, 2007, at 7:45 AM, Paul Lowrance wrote:
Horace Heffner wrote:
On Jun 29, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Paul Lowrance wrote:
Hi,
As a side note there was a major update to my research outline page.
http://emwiki.info
Yesterday I provided two of my "Free Energy" designs, one being a
mechanical version. This was published in Steorn forum, which I
commented on the possibility that the Steorn Orbo could use the same
technique. Not long after, someone approached me asking to join the
Steorn SPDC group. There's a catch though. You have to sign an NDA
and disclose personal information. There's a lot of talk about the
verbiage used in Steorns NDA. I'd bet this NDA would kill any chance
of me patenting any future successful "Free Energy" machine.
Hopefully you are aware that anything you publicly disclose, by
posting here or placing on your web site for example, without first
having a patent application, instantly becomes public domain in most
countries, and starts a one year clock for a patent application in
the US. AT least that's the way things used to be. I haven't kept up
with changes in recent years.
Prior art.
I'm not sure what the above is intended to say, especially since it is
not a sentence. However, let me be more specific.
Hopefully you are aware that anything patentable that you have created
and you publicly disclose, by posting here or placing on your web site
for example, without first having a patent application, instantly
becomes public domain in most countries,
Open source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
and starts a one year clock for
a patent application in the US.
Prior art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art
After that one year you will be unable
to obtain a valid patent in the US. At least that's the way things used
to be. I haven't kept up with changes in recent years.
