Flashonization of patents legacy

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 This letter was my response to off line mail with a stoves list topic:
       Michael, 
       I'm glad you are such a good sport.  This is what it takes to make a 
difference in the world.  My intent here wasn't to challenge your invention, 
or kick your behind.  As I have said, I applaud you. 
        My intention was to use my dilemma to call loud attention to the 
serious pitfalls that common innovators around the world, face in their quest 
to make a seriously effective difference in the world.  As a vertical, 
overnight caver, I really know all about pitfalls. 
       So many farmers, tradespeople, scientists, and workpersons of all 
types find that elusive solution to that pervasive problem.  They spend a 
great deal of time, money, sacrifice jobs, familys, marriages and recreation. 
 They take great personal risks to themselves and everybody that supports 
them, just to see a difference(maybe) in the way things are done.  Any stover 
that has had a close call with fire (who has not?) can relate to this risk 
factor. 
        Who can WE sue when the hair on our wrist is burnt?  I heard someone 
sued a fast food store for US $1,000,000 over too hot coffee once. 
        What does the system in place reward these brave souls with?  
Corporate sponsors that take most or all rights, other copycat patent persons 
that call themselves inventors, and indifferent governments that have tilted 
policys toward those with the most assets in the first place. 
       If a persons worth in the world were judged by his time and effort, 
those who discredit an inventors hard work would be regarded as mass murders. 
 Isn't that what murders do?  They steal a persons remaining time on earth, 
and cheat the rest of the world of the compounded benefits of it. 

       Let us pause, for a moment of silence, for the Great JOHN DELOREAN, 
that could have been - today, here, now.
  
       What did we all lose there? 
       Are we a little more fearful?
       Of what cost is fear to an innovator?  

       Imagine if you could, a world in which every inventor of a useful new 
devise were properly rewarded with the assets of the benefits of that devise? 
 Would we have poverty? 
        I don't know of anybody who truly invents for the money alone.  I do 
know a whole list of persons who give their time, work, concern, thoughts and 
even money towards making a better world.  If they are truly lucky and for no 
other reason, just one or a few of their inventions may give them some 
limited personal financial gain.                          Usually the first 
thing they think of is to put the money back towards making more inventions. 
       How many great inventors died in poverty?  How many actually had a 
legacy any greater than the devise(s) they invented?  Should Thomas Edison be 
crowned the King of the world because of his great number of patents?  It is 
well documented that his staff and many others outside his organization 
actually made the key discoveries. 
       As well as he was treated, he still often had serious financial 
problems.  He should still be given credit here for advancing the thoughts of 
others to a useful realm. 
       What did J. D. Rockefeller discover? 
       The game of monopoly? 
       On the other hand, what about the "suicide list" of well meaning 
persons with huge discoveries which never made the prime time list because of 
lack of support. 
       What about those trashed for trying in the wrong environment?
       How many inventions still sit in the patent office like ticking 
prosperity timebombs, just waiting for the right investor to say "wait, there 
is really something here."  Will their time ever come?  Or will the world 
continue to shrivel of starvation on the vine while the water of nourishment 
lies held hostage by "not invented here" syndrome?  What about all of those 
that never made the long stressful journey to that office? 
       How long will the Corporate world keep the attitude that paying a 
patent royalty is akin to ransom.  I believe it is more like paying the 
percentage of property tax that goes toward the fire department.  Only by 
allowing at least some inventors to make some limited money, have we 
encouraged the investments in devises and processes on which billions of 
people now depend. 
       Imagine a world with no inventions.............

                   Better yet, don't even think about it !                    
                                  
                                       Daniel Dimiduk 
                          Common Inventor Entrepreneur, 
        
       

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