What to do when you have a Free Energy machine

[PaulLowrance]

Dear Charlie,

So you are suggesting that people not publishing an invention on free forums such as this place?  Where would you publish?  I may have read somewhere that IP.com charges about $100 to publish.

Thanks for the answer.  I've asked this question on the Internet for months now and people always dodge the question and run off track.  So far your answer is the closest straightforward answer.

Sincerely,
Paul

[Charlie Brown ARN]

I think that it is most important for creative people to brainstorm with each other with everyone supported by today's access to abundant knowledge. Inventors need to post and publish to thrive. This is more important to me than patenting things. Individuals originate ideas; groups prepare concepts for development within an enterprise. Bringing a new product out requires both individual creative mulling things over and a group process to make sure that a concept meets a wide range of requirements including proper attribution for the inventions going in.  It is difficult to attribute contributions to individuals operating in a well working group. Therefore, the group members should be treated equally and paid generously but this not be the entire payment to an inventor. We have already brought up the idea of finding a place to work together. Let me pass the planning ball at this point.

Aloha, Charlie

[PaulLowrance]

Dear Charlie and others,

I am doing some research on Publishing.  It seems evident that the U.S. patent office is now very picky at what it considers to be legitimate publishing.

I am trying to find out more details, but there is a good possibility that even the large and more trusted companies such as Yahoo (Yahoo groups) are not legitimate considerations for prior art.  I sent an email to ip.com for more details and a price list.  IP.com goes through considerable trouble to publish the data of other inventors.  Here are some links:

https://priorart.ip.com/online_help.jsp?ipcomAffiliate=&topic=legalStatus

http://www.ip.com/pdf/legalopinion.pdf

https://priorart.ip.com/lsa/pdf/LSA_Matrix.pdf

http://www.ip.com/resource/articles/bp-53.pdf

http://www.ip.com

Kind regards,
Paul

[PaulLowrance]

Dear researchers,

I just received an email from IP.com:

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I would love to discuss the reasons why it is not advisable to publish something on a yahoo user group with the expectation of it being consider prior art.

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IP.com charges per document (up to around 20 pages). The price, without discount, is $200 per publication voucher.

Please do not hesitate calling or e-mailing any additional questions.

I look forward to hearing from you,

Tim
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Sincerely,
Paul

[atomiverse]

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-901Fall2003/Readings/index.htm

is a link to a free book on patenting at the MIT Opencourseware Project.

Though I like this thread plenty as a nutshell analysis.