My first look at patent office

[Carefreeland@aol.com]

 Hi everyone, 
       Last night and this morning I had my first good look at the patent 
office site.  I unfortunately don't know how to download software to open the 
tiff files they have, so I can only see a glimpse. 
       I've come to two conclusions: 
 1. Apparently I am even smarter than I thought I was, because most of 
patents I looked at, I could almost Immediately see the next logical step.
 2. I am horrified at the detail of what has been patented. 
       I have come to the conclusion that I will need to stop helping the 
world for fear everything I am inventing will be patented by a person with 
more time and money than myself.  Therefore it will not be available for me 
or the world to use with out paying "patent tax".   
       For example, although I wasn't able to look at Mike Antel's drawings 
for his charcoal making device, I can see that I have clearly looked beyond 
his work when it comes to the loading and unloading mechanisms.  I am 
seriously concerned that the pressurization system is very similar to what I 
had visualized completely over 4 years ago.  Now I don't know how to proceed 
with what I was going to design and give away, because I would have to charge 
enough to possibly fight over a patent conflict. 
        Then again, if I give it away, there wouldn't be any money to fight 
over would there be?  Could they sue me for the money I made selling charcoal 
with my own devise if I didn't sell devises?  By the time I had made enough 
money to be sued, I could find the resources to prove I had my idea 
independently without access to 10% of the previous knowledge they had in 
developing this. I'll put my money into something of value to me, but not to 
anyone else.  Then they can sue me all they want, and not get a thing. 
       What Is so complicated about a pressure cooker other than the 
processes inside it?  That is mother nature at work and I guess we have to 
patent her now too. 
       On the flip side, if I were to have enough money and time to spend 
time in the patent site, I clearly could run circles around many of the 
inventions currently being patented.  This leads me to the conclusion that I 
should possibly abandon my good work in an area that could benefit many, 
until his patent runs out, and pursue what has not been done for the sake of 
being first, not because it's better. 
        If I had thought another was actually the first to think of the 
concept, and I was making money, I would be happy to pay a royalty.  I refuse 
to pay a royalty on what I probably invented first, but didn't know how to 
patent at the time.  Possibly we invented it at the same time, but without 
proper procedure I would have a hard time proving it.  I say who cares.  It's 
the worlds loss, not mine. 
       So the patent office is more than the nightmare I even perceived it to 
be. Now I need to learn how to turn the system against itself.  Hopefully, 
superior intellect will in the long run prevail over a mostly worthless 
system.  What I will have to change is my strategy of trying to invent on a 
wholesale "leaps and bounds" basis for a much slower system.  The patent 
system reminds me of my young daughters fighting over who had a toy first. 
       Now I will always have to look at what has been done like walking 
through a mine field, and try to waste much time documenting or patenting the 
space between as I see essential.  It's no wonder few make any big 
discoveries anymore in this country.  An inventor has to be more worried 
about the "competition" than the process of inventing by solving problems.    

       On the good side, now that the world of "what has been done" is 
finally open to me, I can walk over the ideas I was wasting time figuring 
out.  Since I figured out all of this stuff without having a clue what had 
already been done, what will I be able to do when I know what has been done, 
and I can build on it?  This is the only benefit to me.  This means more to 
those who can't think for themselves, and need to look at someone elses work 
to figure something out.  
        I use to get mad at a student who would copy my work in school and the
n correct his work by comparing to everyone elses work.  Then he would get a 
better grade than me, and not know a thing about the subject.  That is why I 
flunked high school chemistry.  I got sick of the system, and protested to 
the teacher who ignored me, so I ignored him. 
       I'm just amazed that with all of this information available to "the 
system" that so little is being used in real time. It seems that invention is 
not holding up the progress of man -- investment is.  All of the business 
knowledge I have gained tells me that most people with money to invest don't 
have a clue where to put it to do any good in the world, and we are all held 
hostage to politics of power and money. 
       What I want to do is first get access to these tiff files with the 
expired patents in them then develop processes on expired patents. If I 
happen to make an improvement then document that.  If I make a lot of money, 
then I'll give some to the rightfull inventor of the expired patent who was 
probably never compensated. 
        Much easier than to fight over royalties the cost of which they don't 
even post.  One has no idea if a process is worth developing in the first 
place, because you don't have any idea how much money you'll make until 
something is made and sold, and you don't know what the royalty will be until 
you know what the inventor is asking for it.  How does someone invest in a 
scheme like that?  How can you compare cost effectiveness, without 
negotiating over what you may or may not even use? 
       This patent system is trash for helping mankind from what I can see.  
It's only good for helping those who "work systems" like patent attorneys.  
Reminds me of the tax system, and the banking system. Just what we needed, 
another system to give power to those who already have power, and money to 
those who already have money.  If these three systems were reformed, money 
would go to who worked and risked for it, and few would complain about wealth 
distribution.  
      Oh well, onward, with a better understanding of the politics of life as 
usual, 
                     
                                     Daniel Dimiduk 
       
   

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