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Patents
Patents as a tool or an impediment -- ramifications
for free energy technologies. The general patent mentality discourages
cooperation, which stymies progress and innovation.
Key Tools
- Google search engine for US patents - Google is now live
with a service
enabling Internet users to search through the more than seven million
patents granted in the United States.
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- FreePatentsOnline.com
- Provides fast, easy-to-use access to millions of patents and patent
applications. Claims to be the most powerful patent search engine on
the web, with an ever-expanding data collection. (Thanks James Ryley,
site founder)
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- The
Peer to Patent Project Blog - The Community Patent Project,
supported by IBM, aims to design and pilot an online system for peer
review of patents. The Community Patent system
will support a network of experts to advise the Patent Office on prior
art as well as to assist with patentability determinations. (SmartMobs.com;
Jan. 16)
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Do it Yourself
- Documenting
Prior Art - Resources available online and otherwise for
documenting a date/time stamp on ideas. Possible resources
include: Archive.org, Google cache, YahooGroups, wiki history. (PESWiki)
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- Do-It-Yourself
Patents - Hugh Loebner has filed 6 patents by himself, thought
told that no one should apply for a patent without the help of a
lawyer and that any inventor who does so is foolishly risking making a
mistake that could cost him or her dearly. (IEEE; 24-28 Apr.,
2006)
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Patent Directories
 AmazingPatents.com
- Six CD sets chock full of amazing patents: Jetpack, Mind Control, Flying
Car, UFO, Tesla, Weather Control.- Butler's
Encyclopedia of Incredible Patents, Permanent Magnet Propulsion, Permanent
Magnet Motors - Conveniently bound and indexed into one
encyclopedia; 8½ x 11, comb bound, 230 pp.
- Howard
Johnson Magnet Motor Patents
- Tesla Coil
Builders of Virginia - claim to have perfected the design of Tesla's
magnifying transmitter. Video tapes, patents.
Books
- Patent Pending in 24 Hours
- Nolo Press, a U.S. legal outfit, presents a basic primer on how to
quickly, inexpensively, secure provisional filing protection.
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- Open
Call From the Patent Office - The government is about to start
opening up the process of reviewing patents to the modern font of
wisdom: the Internet. The pilot project will not only post
patent applications on the Web and invite comments but also use a
community rating system designed to push the most respected comments
to the top of the file, for serious consideration by the agency's
examiners. (Washington Post; Mar. 5, 2007)
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- Patent
Reviews Via Wiki - Fortune
reports on a pilot program where the patent approval process would be opened
to outsiders for review. Reviewers can vote and discuss on different
proposals, through say a wiki. (Slashdot; Aug. 16, 2006)
Overhaul
- New Legislation Would Overhaul U.S. Patent System
- Patent Reform Act would award patents to people who first file for the
patents, instead of those first to invent, it limits damages patent holders
can collect in infringement lawsuits, and it creates a new procedure for
those questioning the validity of a patent to challenge it after it's been
granted. (PC World; Apr. 18, 2007) (See Slashdot
discussion)
- Patent
Office Reports on Invention Secrecy - Under the Invention
Secrecy Act of 1951, the government may impose a secrecy order on patent
applications submitted to the Patent Office whenever the disclosure of the
inventions described in such applications "might be detrimental to the
national security." At the end of Fiscal Year 2006, there were
4,942 secrecy orders in effect, 108 coming in 2006. (ZPEnergy; Oct.
18, 2006)
- U.S.
'National Security' patent absconding - Copy of a notice
received for an energy patent that allegedly impinged on U.S.
'national security'. A reason to avoid a U.S. patent for any
energy technologies that can make a large difference, and which are
not already in the mainstream. (INE)
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- New
Patent Allowances Stifling Innovation and Collaboration - Fortune
magazine compares the biotech industry with the computer industry and
discusses the effects of the Bayh-Dole amendment, which has allowed
universities to make a lot of cash. But in the process innovation and
scientific collaboration seem to have been stifled. (Slashdot;
Sept. 14, 2005)
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- Patents
v. State Secrets - A federal appeals court ruling upholds a
sweeping interpretation of the "state secrets privilege"
that lets the government effectively kill civil lawsuits deemed a
threat to national security. (ZPEnergy; Sept.
27, 2005)
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- Peer-to-Patent
- Samuel Rose proposes a democratic peer review alternative to the
patent route, which, he says has turned into a bureaucratic nightmare
that stifles innovation and fosters litigation. (SmartMobs;
Oct. 6, 2005)
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Comments
Patent filer beware of industrial espionage
From: "J. H. TONN" <jh17 {at}
mail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 12:44 AM
Subject: for what its worth about patents.
Here is what I learned. I once bought a book for someone that greatly
discouraged filing certain patents. Some are being stolen right out of the
patent office. Case in point Wang computers. He sued IBM (I think) and won 10
million dollars. Dr. Wang said, I will never patent anything again, but put it
inside a black box then it will be fairly safe.
Another case was Dr. Moray who came up with a device that looked very much
like the transistor, but someone else filed the patent for that a short time
later. Stolen from him or the patent office. Maybe we should have a new slogan:
/Patent filer beware/ (of industrial espionage).
See also
Index created by Sterling
D. Allan April 5, 2005
Last updated October 10, 2007
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