Re: Patent problems and solutions

[AJH <andrew.heggie@dtn.ntl.com>]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:14:21 EST, Carefreeland@aol.com wrote:

> Stovers, 
>       Thank you for all of your support on this issue. I have recieved much 
>off-list mail reguarding this subject.  I am not the only one who has noticed 
>these problems. 
I think I may have lost the plot here a bit.

I'll drop this subject after this, as I would prefer to talk about
technical and social solutions, sadly even this is not happening here,
it has become onerous for me to reply to the list. Regarding
protection of IP I think it is a personal decision and still expect
people to differ after rational consideration of their circumstances.

>       The question remains, what can we do about it? 
> Don't be afraid to bring it up with fellow inventors often, share all 
>knowledge of what tricks are up the sleaves of the powers that be, and use 
>the public domain to protect what is not worth fighting for. 

Plainly some people are on the list to watch their backs, take
information and not disseminate that which they expect commercial gain
from.

I see, by implication in another thread, that I am  maybe "not
technically stupid" but probably "commercially stupid", I deeply
regret being over enthusiastic in a confidential 'phone conversation
when proposing collaboration in a clean charcoal making project. Not
necessarily because of financial loss, because by nature of living
where I do I have a relatively comfortable existence. Having the
scheme blurted out and someone else, who had previously never
considered "refining" biomass, attempting to source limited funding
did severely muddy the water and, I believe put a working, rural scale
model of what has previously been restricted to large industrial
processes some five years behind. In the meanwhile I have learned a
lot about commercial pellet production and expect to be able to apply
bioregionality and farm scale to this also.

>       There is still much room for improvement.  How about all of you 
>lurkers out there?  Any good ideas or sad storys to warn fellow inventors?  

The worst thing for me about the ratio of active posters to lurkers is
the poor feedback. I expect people to learn from the list, I know
mistaken information is posted, not least by me, the fear is that some
lurking are gleeful at the though of the dead ends these routes may
lead to.

AJH

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