Re: Alternative to Invention Patents

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:38:34 GMT

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:49:13 -0400, "Matt Timmermans"
<mt0000@sympatico.nospam-remove.ca> wrote:

>"Mark Monson" <m_monson@ztech.com> wrote in message
>news:nm2Ac.934$nA1.898@bignews3.bellsouth.net...
>> [...] An inventor
>> would agree to forego patent protection and submit his idea to the office
>of
>> invention awards. An examiner would check to see if the idea was new and
>useful
>> and the government would award a cash prize to the inventor if his
>invention is
>> found to be novel and useful. The invention would then pass immediately
>to the
>> public domain where anybody could use it.
>
>I don't think an inventor would be content to live or die by the whim of an
>examiner.

?? "Whim"?? What a stupid statement. Patents are granted on the
_judgment_ of examiners now, and always have been.

>Let the patent be granted, and if the government wants the
>invention to be in the public domain, let it buy the patent out.

Oh, right, grant a patent for every application, then try to buy out
the guy who gets a patent on the lever. There's not that much money
in the world, pal.

Geez.

-- Roy L

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