goal of a patent is not only to prevent others to copy your technology, but mostly to prevent competitors to use your own technology.
patent don't work very well, but their main effect is that some patent troll can block real innovators. this is why people like amazon patent thinks like photo of goods on white background... just to prevent a troll to do it. note also that it was observed that weakly patenting your product is a good tactic to push competitors to copy you, while protecting your IP is found to push them to innovate... Farewell, the soviet spy who killed USSR spying industry reported that USSR was so industrially pumping western IP that the scientist and engineers were furious and discouraged. they had very good scientists, motivated, and who develope very innovative solutions, because of their different situation... but their solutions were ignored, prefered to copying the west. anyway, give a price to 10% of planet GDP and imagine how rich can be Darden... and imagine that the difference will be what others people will gaine... it is not even a tip to the guy who took the risk. if you want to make entrepreneur be sure not to benefit from their risk taken, be sure you will have people whose dream is to be a bureaucrat in DoE. See how our mentality evolved in France... given what we did in the past in science, entrepreneurship... the system of incentive make the mentality of the population. kill the reward, you kill the risk taking. What Darden says, is totally synchronous with LENR-Cities founder position... there is not enough mouth to eat the cake of LENr revolution, so who cares who bite the first... their belly will be full. 2014-10-20 15:09 GMT+02:00 Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]>: > > http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/techflash/2014/10/raleigh-investor-darden-still-bullish-on.html?page=all > > I was re-reading this, and I strongly agree with one of the comments. > > "“I don’t care who gets there first, how it happens,” he says. “I just > want to see it happen.”" > > The statement is either a total misquote or a complete lie, and therefore > undermines the credibility of Tom Darden in a huge way. > > > If that statement were true, than Darden would take his chances with the > US patent office and open up the IP for replication. >
