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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.

Contents

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.
  • Patents - Patents as a tool or an impediment -- ramifications for free energy technologies. The general patent mentality discourages cooperation, which stymies progress and innovation. (FreeEnergyNews index page)
  • International Patent Lookup
  • US Patent Lookup


  • 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)
  • 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 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, 2006)

Do it Yourself

  • To Patent or Not to Patent a Free Energy Technology? - Addressing the question of when to seek for a patent and when not to seek for a patent on "free energy" technology. Lists alternatives for "game-changing" technologies that should not go the patent route. (PESWiki; Oct. 2, 2007)
  • 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)
  • 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)

Patent Directories

  • AmazingPatents.com - Six CD sets chock full of amazing patents: Jetpack, Mind Control, Flying Car, UFO, Tesla, Weather Control.

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.


Essays

... Note that patents must be 'renewed' and be active to be enforceable. ... applicant lots of $$, while providing for the abandonment of lots of patents. ...

Open Review

  • 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)


  • 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 Skeptics

  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)

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).

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